MY HOMETOWN

Bruce Springsteen

Tempo: 115

INTRO, played by the keyboard, bass drum, hi-hat, and tamborine

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I was eight years old - and running with
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a dime in my hand
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Into the bus stop to pick - up a paper - for
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my old man
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I'd sit on     his lap - in that  big old Buick
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and steer as we drove through town
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He'd tousle my hair
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and say son take - a good look around

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This is your hometown,                    this is your hometown

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This is your hometown,                    this is your home town     /++++/++++

bass and (acoustic) guitar starts playing

In `65 tension was running high - at my high school
There was a lot of fights - between the black and white
There was nothing you could do

Two cars at a light - on a Saturday night
in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come

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to my hometown, My hometown, my hometown, my hometown /++++/++++

The drummer is adding the rim-shot, taborine continues

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Now Main Street's whitewashed windows -
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and      vacant stores    
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Seems like there ain't nobody - wants to come
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    down     here no more    

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They're closing down - the textile mill
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across the railroad tracks    
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Foreman says these jobs are going boys
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and they ain't coming back to

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Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown /++++/++++

Last night me and Kate
we laid in bed - talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south

I'm thirty-five - we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up - behind the wheel
and said son take a good look around /++++

This is your hometown

Two lines of the verse, choir sings aha's, fade out

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