Tablature straight time - Bruce Springsteen

          



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  Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:39:04 -0600

  From: jgroce@mail.utexas.edu (Jason Groce)

  Subject: TAB: STRAIGHT TIME by Bruce Springsteen

  

  STRAIGHT TIME

  Bruce Springsteen

  (from the album "The Ghost of Tom Joad")

  

  Notes:  The song has a fingerpicking pattern that's a little different, but

  this pattern also varies at times.  Listen to the song to pick up on the

  nuances, but this should serve as a good roadmap.  Springsteen tunes the

  6th string to a D.  Let the notes ring throughout.

  

  Picking Pattern and Chord Formations:

  

     Dadd11

  e |---------------|----------------|

  B |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----|

  G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-|

  D |---4-------4---|----4-------4---|

  A |---------------|---(0)----------| <----- Bruce plays the open A

  D |-0-------------|--0-------------|        string occasionally

  

     G                                 A7sus4

  e |---------------|----------------||---------------|---------------|

  B |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----||-------3-3-----|-------3-3-----|

  G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-||-----0-------0-|-----0-------0-|

  D |---0-------0---|----0-------0---||---2-------2---|---2-------2---|

  A |---------------|----------------||-0-------------|-0-------------|

  D |-5-------------|--5-------------||---------------|---------------|

  

  Intro:  Dadd11

  

  Dadd11

  Got out of prison back in '86, and I found a wife.

                       G

  Walked the clean and narrow,

                              Dadd11

  Just trying to stay out and stay alive.

  

  Got a job at the rendering plant; it ain't gonna make me rich.

                         G

  In the darkness before dinner comes

                  Dadd11

  Sometimes I can feel the itch

          A7sus4                               G

  I got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line.

                    Dadd11

  I'm sick of doing straight time.

  

  My uncle's at the evening table, makes his living running hot cars.

  Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says

  "Charlie, you best remember who your friends are."

  Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line.

  I ain't making straight time.

  

        G                             Dadd11

  Eight years in it feels like you're gonna die.

                      G

  But you get used to anything.

                          Dadd11

  Sooner or later it just becomes your life.

  

  Kitchen floor in the evening tossin' my little babies high.

  Mary's smiling, but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye.

  Seems you can't get any more than half free.

  I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me.

  Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line.

  I'm sick of doin' straight time.

  

         G                           Dadd11

  In the basement, huntin' gun and a hacksaw.

        G                                        Dadd11

  Sip a beer, and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor.

  

  Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands

  Lay my head down on the pillow

  And go driftin' off into foreign lands.

  

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  Corrections are more than welcome.  Enjoy!

  

  Jason Groce - jgroce@mail.utexas.edu

  Playwriting, Department of Theatre and Dance

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 Straight time, de Bruce springsteen 

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