Chords for My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen (live at the Château de Vincennes, Paris 1988)

_ I _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] was _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [F] eight years old and running with [Bb] a [F] dime in [C] my hand.
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper [F] for my [C] _ [Bb] old man.
_ [F] I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and [Bb] steer as [F] we rode through [C]
town.
_ _ Tassel my hair and say, son, [F] take a good [Bb] look around.
This [F] is your hometown. _ _
_ _ [Bb] It's your [F] _ _
[C] hometown.
_ It's your hometown. _ _
_ _ [F] It's your _ _ [Bb]
hometown.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ At sixty-five, teaching was running high [Bb] at my [F] _ _ [C]
school.
_ There was a lot of fights between the black and white.
[F] There was nothing [C] you [Bb] could do.
_ [F] Two cars alight on a Saturday night.
[Bb] In the [F] backseat, there [C] was a thot.
_ _ Words were passed, shotgun blast, [F] troubled [C] times [Bb] had _ come.
[F] To my hometown. _ _
_ _ [Bb] To [F] my _ [C]
hometown.
_ To my hometown. _
_ _ To my _ [Bb]
hometown.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] The main street's whitewashed windows _ [F] and vacant stores. _
_ _ [Dm] Seems like there ain't [D]
nobody wanna [F] come down here no more. _
_ Yeah, [Bb] they're closing down the textile mill [F] across the railroad tracks. _
_ _ [Bb] Foreman says these jobs are going boys [F] and they ain't coming [C] _
back.
[F] To your hometown. _ _
_ _ [Bb] To [F] your _ [Am]
hometown.
[C] _ To your hometown. _ _
_ _ [F] To your _ [Gm]
hometown.
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It's not me and Kate, we're laid in bed, [Bb] talking [F] about getting [C] _
out.
_ Packing up, _ our bags may [Bb] be [D] hitting the sub.
_ [F] I'm thirty-five, we've got a boy [Bb] of [F] our [C] own now.
But it's not a settlement, we're hand-to-wheel and stick.
[F] Son, [Am] take a good look [Gm]
[Bb] around.
_ _ [F] _ _ This is your hometown.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[F] Ooooo.
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _
Ooooo.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
[F] Ooooo.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F]
Ooooo.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[F] Ooooo.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
Ooooo.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm]
Ooooo.
[Am] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] Hey! _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Ooooo.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
Ooooo.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Oooo.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ Oh _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _