Chords for Clarence Clemons on Meeting Bruce Springsteen

I walked into this joint and _ I was playing with Norman in a bar down the street.
It goes back a little further and I'll take you back a little bit.
_ Karen Cassidy was a singer in Norman's band.
Norman was a Jewish guy with a big red afro _ _ and _ he did cover music, you know, we did cover things.
And he took a chance for hiring me back in those days in the 70s,
a black man playing in this white band.
And a lot of people didn't hire him, _ but the music was so good and so strong, he says,
I got to do this.
He took the step and that's what really impressed me with Norman,
that he took the step to hire me in his band because the music was good.
_ And I know it wasn't really what I was looking for, but I was playing.
It's what I wanted.
I was playing in the soul band, we were playing at Fort Momma _ _ _ _ _
and we're coming back and the car breaks down in front of this bar and I hear this music.
Whenever I hear music, I want to play.
So I took my horn and went into this place _ and there was Norman
and _ he had this girl singing named Karen Cassidy.
Karen and I became good friends. _
_ Norman hired me.
I left the black band _ because it just wasn't going anywhere.
I wasn't into that James Brown thing all the time, all the time.
I wanted something adventure, I wanted something new.
Rock and roll was new to me, right?
Because I grew up in a very religious background and very soulful music
and I got into the soul music.
But I wanted to rock.
I was a rocker.
I was a born rock and roll sax player. _ _
And anyway, I started playing with Norman.
I left, I mean I started playing with Norman and, _ but Norman was playing rock and roll,
and that's what I dug about it.
We were just cooking, man, and this girl Karen just arrived at me.
She says, I got this friend, you got to meet him. _
You got to meet this guy.
_ Every night, every time we went somewhere, you got to meet this guy, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce.
I said, okay, okay, one day we're going to meet him.
And about two months it took before I had a chance to really meet him
because I was always working and he was always working.
So we happened to be playing in Asbury Park at the same time.
I played in a matinee and he was at the Wonder Bar,
which was about three blocks north _ _ of the Student Prince.
_ And big northeasterly blew in and started raining this night.
I was just leaving the club and I walked down to the Student Prince.
I mean, it was thunder and lightning.
_ And Bruce tells this story and it's really true.
_ [F#] And I walked into the club _ and _ _ _ opened _ the door and the wind actually
tore the door out of my hand and blew it down the street.
So all the bouncers go running down the street after the door.
And I'm standing there with this lightning and thunder behind me and I walk in.
It's another black guy walking into a white club.
You know, I was like, whoa, wait a minute.
And I walked over to Bruce.
I found out who Bruce was.
And I walk over and said, I want to sit in.
_ _ He said, sure, you know, _ whatever you want to do. _ _
So I sat in and it was a magical moment.
I swear I have never, I will never forget that moment, you know.
And right now when I'm on stage with Bruce, I still feel that moment.
It was something that _ all my answers, all those bands I played with,
all the things I was searching for and all the things I wanted to do was right there.
Because he didn't play cover music.
He played all his original stuff, you know, and I loved it, man.
It was just so natural for me.
It just felt like I was supposed to be there.
It was like, it was a very magical moment.
He looked at me and I looked at him and we fell in love.
_ And that's still