# From Erwin Burgstaller, chord.0.senke@spamgourmet.com # # This is an input file for utility "chord" # # My preferred options for chord362 (landscape): # chord -a -G -2 -t 21 -c 16 # {define: Esus base-fret 0 frets 0 2 2 2 0 X} {define: Asus2 base-fret 0 frets X 0 2 2 0 X} {define: D/A base-fret 0 frets X 0 0 2 3 X} # {title:MY HOMETOWN} {subtitle:Bruce Springsteen} # {c: Tempo: 115} {c: INTRO, played by the keyboard, bass drum, hi-hat, and tamborine} [Asus2][A][Asus2][A][D][A][Esusu][E][Esus][E][A][E][D/A] I was [Asus2]eight [A]years old - and [Asus2]runn[A]ing with a [D]dime [A]in my [E]hand Into the [Esus]bus s[E]top to [Esus]pick - up [E]a [A]paper - for [E]my old [D/A]man I'd [Asus2]sit on[A] his lap - in that [Asus2]big [A]old Buick and [D]steer as we [A]drove through [E]town He'd [Esus]tousl[E]e my hair and [Esus]say s[E]on take - a [A]good [E]look a[D/A]round {soc} This is [A]your hometown, [Asus2] [A] this is [D]your [A]home[E]town This is [Esus]your [E]hometown, [Esus] [E] this is [A]your [E]home [D/A]town[Asus2][A] /++++/++++ {eoc} {c: 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 to my hometown, My hometown, my hometown, my hometown [Asus2]/++[A]++/++++ {c: The drummer is adding the rim-shot, taborine continues} Now [F#m]Main Street's whitewashed windows - and [Asus2] vac[A]ant stores[Asus2][A] Seems [F#m]like there ain't nobody - wants to come [Asus2] down[A] here no more[Asus2][A] They're [D]closing down - the textile mill a[Asus2]cross the [A]railroad tracks[Asus2][A] Foreman [D]says these jobs are going boys and [A]they ain't coming [E]back to Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown /++++[A]/++++ 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 {c: Two lines of the verse, choir sings aha's, fade out} {time:4:17}