Chords for Bruce Springsteen - Remember When The Music - [Harry Chapin Tribute & Cover]

_ _ Ladies and gentlemen, _ _ Bruce Springsteen. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ I met Harry in [D#] 1978.
I was in the studio.
[Cm] He was making a record in another studio.
He [F#] came smiling up to me and started talking to me.
And [D#] 20 minutes went by.
30 minutes went [G] by.
Talked about everything [B] with politics, music.
Said, yeah, he's a nice guy.
[Cm] Next night I came in.
[G] Harry comes bounding up smiling again.
Starts talking to me.
30 minutes goes by.
_ _ So finally, [C] I used to try to hide from him.
_ I come in and I ask the secretary if Harry was in the lobby.
_ _ [G] And I'd sneak in the studio.
So we went out to California to mix.
[D] _ I'm standing on this balcony, third floor of this motel.
And I hear, hey, hey.
I look down and there's Harry.
_ _ And he starts talking to me.
[C] _ Talks to me for about 40 minutes.
Standing down there looking [D] up.
He was trying to get me to do something. _
He said one thing that I always remembered.
He said, [D] gee, I play one night for me and one night for the other guy.
_ [G] And later on when I was trying to put my [C#] music to some _ [Cm] pragmaticus,
I remembered [D] what he said.
Not being bent to [C] extremism, I wasn't as generous as he was.
[D] _ But he's probably [B] laughing right now.
[G] _ _ This is for you.
_ _ _ _ Remember when music [A] came from wooden boxes strong with silver wire? _
And as we sang, the words would set our hearts on fire.
To believe in things.
_ And so we'd [D] sing.
_ _ Remember when the music [C] brought us all together to stand inside the ring? _ _
And as we [D] joined hands [C] we'd meet in the refrain.
[G] The dreams to live and hope [D] to give.
_ _ Remember when the music [C] was the best of what we dreamed of for [G] our children's time? _
And as we worked we sang [C] because we knew time was just a line. _
_ [G] _ _ _ If the [D] future gave. _
_ [G] Remember when the music was a [C] rock that we could cling [G] to so we'd not despair?
_ And as we sang we knew we'd hear and it'd go in the air.
And if we weren't [G] smiling then, _ [Cm] [D] we'd smile. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] And all the times I listened.
[G] And all the times I heard.
And all the [C] melodies I'm missing.
And all the magic words.
[D] All the beautiful voices.
_ [G] And the choices we had then.
[C] And I hope to find we got [D] those kinds of choices once again.
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ I remember when Sandy sent me this tape.
[C] I listened to it and I said, gee, this is [G] a little on the corny side.
_ _ [D] And I sat down and I tried to think [Cm]
what the song was about.
_ [G] _ And I guess there was a time when people felt that music _ provided you with a greater _ [C] _ _ [G] sense of unity.
A greater sense of shared vision and purpose [D] than it does today.
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_ In my [C] generation, we were the generation that was going to change the world.
_ _ [D] Somehow we were going to make it a little less lonely. _
A little less hungry.
A little more just place.
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_ _ _ [G] But it seems that when _ [D] that _ _ promise slipped through our hands, we didn't replace it with nothing but [G] lost [C] faith.
And [D] now we live in times of pretty shatter.
I got my music, you got yours.
The guy at the street, he's got his.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ And you could [G] kind of sit back and say, not cynically, but truthfully, well [D] maybe _ all men are not brothers.
_ _ [G] And maybe we won't ever know who or what we really are to each other.
[C] _ _ [D] But I think Harry instinctively knew that it was going to take a lot more than just love to survive.
That it was going to take a strong sense of [G] purpose, [C] a duty, _ _ and a good clear eye on [G] the dirty ways of the world. _ _ _
[D] _ So in keeping [G] _ his promise to himself, [C] he reminds us of our promise to ourselves.
And [G] that tonight, _ _ _ [D] alongside Harry, it's that promise [G] that his spirit would have us [C] remember _ [Cm] and honor [G] and recommit to. _
So, do something.
[C] And may his song be sung. _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ Remember when music was a [D] glow on the horizon of [G] the newborn day.
And as we sang, the sun come up and [C] chased the dark away.
[G] And life was good, _ [D] for we knew we could.
_ [G] Remember when the music brought the night across the valley as the day went [D] down.
_ And as we hummed the melody, [C] we'd be safe inside the sound.
[G] And so we'd sleep to awake with [D] dreams and [G] promises to keep. _
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