Chords for Saying Goodbye to Clarence Clemons "The Big Man" - NBC Nightly News (June 20, 2011)
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] Yesterday I found myself with a lot of other people from the Jersey Shore.
We were drawn to the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, a bar just off the boardwalk
that is synonymous with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
and the sound and the feeling they created.
People went there yesterday because they needed a place to go to remember Clarence Clemens,
Bruce Springsteen's sidekick and sax player and friend going back 40 years.
Like everybody else there, I took pictures of the flowers and tributes outside,
photos and candles and flowers.
And inside the stage where so much great music had been created
was instead sad and solemn yesterday in the [Em] wake of the death of the big man.
Not a lot [Am] of rock bands have a [Em] saxophone and nobody else had Clarence [G] Clemens.
[C] [D]
[G] Yes, the name of the outfit is Bruce [F] Springsteen and the E [Bb] Street Band,
but [C] that sound was always [Bb] so different.
[C] In large part because of that [F] shiny [Bb] brass [C] secret weapon and the [Gm] big black [F] man [Bb] playing it.
And once [C] upon a time even that was a novelty.
It was in the immediate [Gb] wake of the Civil Rights era [Db] after all.
Right after Bruce [D] Springsteen burst onto the scene we learned [A] he was part of a package [B] deal.
Bruce wrote [E] and sang the songs, but those solos, those hooks, that soul, that was [Bm] all Clarence.
[D] Everything changed [E] when the big man joined the [B] band.
[E] [A] He achieved icon status as a musician, [F] meaning when you heard it you knew it was him.
And they [Bb] were a [F] band of [C] brothers, blood brothers.
The two men were tight.
Clarence always called it a love affair among men and Bruce felt the same way.
Together we [N] told a story of the possibilities of friendship.
A story older than the ones that I was writing.
And a story that I could never have told without him at my side.
I want to thank you big man.
I love you so much.
He was the son of a fish merchant in Norfolk, Virginia.
In person and on stage he was as big as a house.
Big enough to have played college football [C] in Maryland.
But on his way to an NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, a car accident blew out his [F] knee.
Then he decided to [Bb] make a living blowing his horn.
[Am] [F] And on a sunny Father's Day Sunday in Asbury Park, the thought of not hearing that sound [Abm] again was just too much for some of the faithful.
It's so tough.
It's tough, you know.
[N] This is the end of an era.
In a [Abm] photograph taken 36 years ago today, Bruce is seen leaning on Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run.
And he leaned on him a lot.
The man he called the Big Kahuna, [Eb] the Duke of Paducah, was the rock of that rock band.
The question is what are we going to do when it comes time to play Jungle Land?
[Cm] It's not going to be easy because for the fans it's personal, it's a great
We were drawn to the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, a bar just off the boardwalk
that is synonymous with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
and the sound and the feeling they created.
People went there yesterday because they needed a place to go to remember Clarence Clemens,
Bruce Springsteen's sidekick and sax player and friend going back 40 years.
Like everybody else there, I took pictures of the flowers and tributes outside,
photos and candles and flowers.
And inside the stage where so much great music had been created
was instead sad and solemn yesterday in the [Em] wake of the death of the big man.
Not a lot [Am] of rock bands have a [Em] saxophone and nobody else had Clarence [G] Clemens.
[C] [D]
[G] Yes, the name of the outfit is Bruce [F] Springsteen and the E [Bb] Street Band,
but [C] that sound was always [Bb] so different.
[C] In large part because of that [F] shiny [Bb] brass [C] secret weapon and the [Gm] big black [F] man [Bb] playing it.
And once [C] upon a time even that was a novelty.
It was in the immediate [Gb] wake of the Civil Rights era [Db] after all.
Right after Bruce [D] Springsteen burst onto the scene we learned [A] he was part of a package [B] deal.
Bruce wrote [E] and sang the songs, but those solos, those hooks, that soul, that was [Bm] all Clarence.
[D] Everything changed [E] when the big man joined the [B] band.
[E] [A] He achieved icon status as a musician, [F] meaning when you heard it you knew it was him.
And they [Bb] were a [F] band of [C] brothers, blood brothers.
The two men were tight.
Clarence always called it a love affair among men and Bruce felt the same way.
Together we [N] told a story of the possibilities of friendship.
A story older than the ones that I was writing.
And a story that I could never have told without him at my side.
I want to thank you big man.
I love you so much.
He was the son of a fish merchant in Norfolk, Virginia.
In person and on stage he was as big as a house.
Big enough to have played college football [C] in Maryland.
But on his way to an NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, a car accident blew out his [F] knee.
Then he decided to [Bb] make a living blowing his horn.
[Am] [F] And on a sunny Father's Day Sunday in Asbury Park, the thought of not hearing that sound [Abm] again was just too much for some of the faithful.
It's so tough.
It's tough, you know.
[N] This is the end of an era.
In a [Abm] photograph taken 36 years ago today, Bruce is seen leaning on Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run.
And he leaned on him a lot.
The man he called the Big Kahuna, [Eb] the Duke of Paducah, was the rock of that rock band.
The question is what are we going to do when it comes time to play Jungle Land?
[Cm] It's not going to be easy because for the fans it's personal, it's a great
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[E] Yesterday I found myself with a lot of other people from the Jersey Shore.
We were drawn to the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, a bar just off the boardwalk
that is synonymous with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
and the sound and the feeling they created.
People went there yesterday because they needed a place to go to remember Clarence Clemens,
Bruce Springsteen's sidekick and sax player and friend going back 40 years.
Like everybody else there, I took pictures of the flowers and tributes outside,
photos and candles and flowers.
And inside the stage where so much great music had been created
was instead sad and solemn yesterday in the [Em] wake of the death of the big man.
Not a lot [Am] of rock bands have a [Em] saxophone and nobody else had Clarence [G] Clemens.
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Yes, the name of the outfit is Bruce [F] Springsteen and the E [Bb] Street Band,
but [C] that sound was always [Bb] so different.
[C] In large part because of that [F] shiny [Bb] brass [C] secret weapon and the [Gm] big black [F] man [Bb] playing it.
And once [C] upon a time even that was a novelty.
It was in the immediate [Gb] wake of the Civil Rights era [Db] after all.
Right after Bruce [D] Springsteen burst onto the scene we learned [A] he was part of a package [B] deal.
Bruce wrote [E] and sang the songs, but those solos, those hooks, that soul, that was [Bm] all Clarence.
[D] Everything changed [E] when the big man joined the [B] band.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] He achieved icon status as a musician, [F] meaning when you heard it you knew it was him.
And they [Bb] were a [F] band of [C] brothers, blood brothers.
The two men were tight.
Clarence always called it a love affair among men and Bruce felt the same way.
Together we [N] told a story _ of the possibilities of friendship. _
A story older than the ones that I was writing.
And a story that I could never have told without him at my side.
I want to thank you big man.
I love you so much.
_ He was the son of a fish merchant in Norfolk, Virginia.
In person and on stage he was as big as a house.
Big enough to have played college football [C] in Maryland.
But on his way to an NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, a car accident blew out his [F] knee.
Then he decided to [Bb] make a living blowing his horn.
[Am] _ [F] _ _ And on a sunny Father's Day Sunday in Asbury Park, the thought of not hearing that sound [Abm] again was just too much for some of the faithful.
It's so tough.
It's tough, you know.
[N] This is the end of an era.
In a [Abm] photograph taken 36 years ago today, Bruce is seen leaning on Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run.
And he leaned on him a lot.
The man he called the Big Kahuna, [Eb] the Duke of Paducah, was the rock of that rock band.
The question is what are we going to do when it comes time to play Jungle Land? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ It's not going to be easy because for the fans it's personal, it's a great
We were drawn to the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, a bar just off the boardwalk
that is synonymous with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
and the sound and the feeling they created.
People went there yesterday because they needed a place to go to remember Clarence Clemens,
Bruce Springsteen's sidekick and sax player and friend going back 40 years.
Like everybody else there, I took pictures of the flowers and tributes outside,
photos and candles and flowers.
And inside the stage where so much great music had been created
was instead sad and solemn yesterday in the [Em] wake of the death of the big man.
Not a lot [Am] of rock bands have a [Em] saxophone and nobody else had Clarence [G] Clemens.
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Yes, the name of the outfit is Bruce [F] Springsteen and the E [Bb] Street Band,
but [C] that sound was always [Bb] so different.
[C] In large part because of that [F] shiny [Bb] brass [C] secret weapon and the [Gm] big black [F] man [Bb] playing it.
And once [C] upon a time even that was a novelty.
It was in the immediate [Gb] wake of the Civil Rights era [Db] after all.
Right after Bruce [D] Springsteen burst onto the scene we learned [A] he was part of a package [B] deal.
Bruce wrote [E] and sang the songs, but those solos, those hooks, that soul, that was [Bm] all Clarence.
[D] Everything changed [E] when the big man joined the [B] band.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] He achieved icon status as a musician, [F] meaning when you heard it you knew it was him.
And they [Bb] were a [F] band of [C] brothers, blood brothers.
The two men were tight.
Clarence always called it a love affair among men and Bruce felt the same way.
Together we [N] told a story _ of the possibilities of friendship. _
A story older than the ones that I was writing.
And a story that I could never have told without him at my side.
I want to thank you big man.
I love you so much.
_ He was the son of a fish merchant in Norfolk, Virginia.
In person and on stage he was as big as a house.
Big enough to have played college football [C] in Maryland.
But on his way to an NFL career with the Cleveland Browns, a car accident blew out his [F] knee.
Then he decided to [Bb] make a living blowing his horn.
[Am] _ [F] _ _ And on a sunny Father's Day Sunday in Asbury Park, the thought of not hearing that sound [Abm] again was just too much for some of the faithful.
It's so tough.
It's tough, you know.
[N] This is the end of an era.
In a [Abm] photograph taken 36 years ago today, Bruce is seen leaning on Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run.
And he leaned on him a lot.
The man he called the Big Kahuna, [Eb] the Duke of Paducah, was the rock of that rock band.
The question is what are we going to do when it comes time to play Jungle Land? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ It's not going to be easy because for the fans it's personal, it's a great