MY HOMETOWN

Bruce Springsteen

Tempo: 115

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

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Esusu

Esus

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I was	eight	years old - and	runn	ing with

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a	dime	in my	hand

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Into the	bus s	top 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	tousl	e my hair

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and	say s	on take - a	good	look a	round

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This is	your hometown,		this is	your	home	town

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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	vac	ant 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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a cross 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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to my hometown, My hometown, my hometown, my hometown	/++	++/++++

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