Racing in the Street Chords by Bruce Springsteen

Tempo:
87.15 bpm
Chords used:

Bb

F

Gm

G

C

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Racing in the Street chords
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[Dm]
[C] [G] [Bb]
[F] [Dm] [Bb]
[C] [G] [F]
I got [F] a 69 Chevy with a 396, [Bb] fuely heads and a hearse on the floor.
[Gm] She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot, [Bb] outside the 7-Eleven store.
Me [F] and my partner's son, he built her straight out of scratch, and he [Bb] rides with me from town to town.
We only [Gm] run for the money, got no strings attached.
We shut [Bb] him up and then we shut him down.
[F] Tonight, tonight, the strip's just right, I wanna blow him off in my first heat.
[Gm] Summer's here and the time is right, [Bb] racing in the street.
[F] We take all the action we can meet, and [Bb] we cover all of Northeast state.
[Gm] When the strip shuts down, we run them in the street, [G] from the [Bb] fire roads to the interstate.
Now [F] some guys, they just give up living, and [Bb] start dying little by little, piece by piece.
Some [Gm] guys come home from work in Washoe, [Bb] and go racing in the street.
[F] Tonight, tonight, the strip's just right, I [Bb] wanna blow him all out of the seats.
[Gm] We're calling out around the world, we're [Bb] going racing in the street.
[Eb] [Cm]
[Eb] [Ab]
[Eb] [Gm] [Cm]
[F] [Bb]
[C] I [F] met her on the strip three years ago, in a [Bb]
Camaro with this dude from L.A.
[Gm] I blew that Camaro off my back, [Bb] and drove that little girl away.
[F] But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes, and [Bb] she cries herself to sleep at night.
[Gm] When I come home, the house is dark, she [Bb] sighs, baby, did you make it all right?
[E] [F] She sits on the porch of her daddy's house, [Bb] but all her pretty dreams are torn.
[G] She stares off alone into the night, with the eyes [Bb] of one who waits for just being born.
[G] For [F] all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels [Bb]
rumbling through this promised land.
[F] Tonight [Gm] my baby and me, we're gonna ride [G] to the sea, [Bb] and wash these sins [F] off our hands.
Tonight, tonight, the highway's bright out [Bb] of our way, mister you best keep the [Gm]
summers here and the times right.
[Bb] We're racing in the street.
[G] [F] [Bb]
[Gm]
[Bb]
[Cm] [F]
[Bb]
[C] [G]
[Gm] [Bb]
[F]
[Bb]
[F] [Gm]
[Bb]
[F]
[Bb]
[Dm] [Gm]
[Bb]
[F]
[Bb]
[F] [Gm]
[Bb]
[F]
[Bb]
Key:  
Bb
12341111
F
134211111
Gm
123111113
G
2131
C
3211
Bb
12341111
F
134211111
Gm
123111113
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To learn Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street chords, grasp the musical fabric of the song with this sequence - F, Bb, F, Bb, Gm, F, Gm and Bb of chords. I suggest starting at a calm pace of 43 BPM, and as you gain confidence, approach the song's BPM of 87. Given the song's key of Bb Major, adjust the capo to align with your vocal range and chord preference.

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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
I got [F] a 69 Chevy with a 396, [Bb] fuely heads and a hearse on the floor. _
_ [Gm] She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot, [Bb] outside the 7-Eleven store.
Me [F] and my partner's son, he built her straight out of scratch, and he [Bb] rides with me from town to town.
_ We only [Gm] run for the money, got no strings attached.
We shut [Bb] him up and then we shut him down.
_ [F] Tonight, tonight, the strip's just right, I wanna blow him off in my first heat.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Summer's here and the time is right, _ [Bb] racing in the street.
_ [F] _ We take all the action we can meet, and [Bb] we cover all of Northeast state.
_ [Gm] When the strip shuts down, we run them in the street, [G] from the [Bb] fire roads to the interstate.
Now [F] some guys, they just give up living, and [Bb] start dying little by little, piece by piece.
Some [Gm] guys come home from work in Washoe, _ [Bb] and go racing in the street.
_ _ [F] Tonight, tonight, the strip's just right, I [Bb] wanna blow him all out of the seats.
_ _ [Gm] We're calling out around the world, we're [Bb] going racing in the street.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] I [F] met her on the strip three years ago, in a [Bb]
Camaro with this dude from L.A.
_ [Gm] I blew that Camaro off my back, _ [Bb] and drove that little girl away.
_ [F] But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes, and [Bb] she cries herself to sleep at night.
_ [Gm] When I come home, the house is dark, she [Bb] sighs, baby, did you make it all right?
_ _ [E] [F] She sits on the porch of her daddy's house, [Bb] but all her pretty dreams are torn.
_ [G] She stares off alone into the night, with the eyes [Bb] of one who waits for just being born.
[G] For [F] all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels [Bb]
rumbling through this promised land.
_ [F] Tonight [Gm] my baby and me, we're gonna ride [G] to the sea, [Bb] and wash these sins [F] off our hands.
_ Tonight, tonight, the highway's bright out [Bb] of our way, mister you best keep the _ [Gm]
summers here and the times right.
[Bb] We're racing in the street.
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