Straight Time tab by Bruce Springsteen

Tabs

STRAIGHT TIME
Bruce Springsteen
(from the album "The Ghost of Tom Joad")

Notes: The song has a fingerpicking pattern that's a little different, but
this pattern also varies at times. Listen to the song to pick up on the
nuances, but this should serve as a good roadmap. Springsteen tunes the
6th string to a D. Let the notes ring throughout.

Picking Pattern and Chord Formations:

  Dadd11
e |---------------|----------------|
BB |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----|
G+G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-|
D MajorD |---4-------4---|----4-------4---|
A augmentedA |---------------|---(0)----------| <----- Bruce plays the open A augmentedA
D MajorD |-0-------------|--0-------------|    string occasionally

  G+G                 A7sus4A7sus4
e |---------------|----------------||---------------|---------------|
BB |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----||-------3-3-----|-------3-3-----|
G+G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-||-----0-------0-|-----0-------0-|
D MajorD |---0-------0---|----0-------0---||---2-------2---|---2-------2---|
A augmentedA |---------------|----------------||-0-------------|-0-------------|
D MajorD |-5-------------|--5-------------||---------------|---------------|

Intro: Dadd11

Dadd11
Got out of prison back in '86...
           G+G
Walked the clean ...
              Dadd11
Just trying to stay out ...

Got a job at the rendering plant....
            G+G
In the darkness ...
        Dadd11
Sometimes I can ...
    A7sus4A7sus4                G+G
I got a cold mind to go ...
         Dadd11
I'm sick of doing ...

My uncle's at the evening ....

   G+G               Dadd11
Eight years in it feels like ...
          G+G
But you get used .....
            Dadd11
Sooner or later it just ...

Kitchen floor in the evening ....

    G+G              Dadd11
In the basement, ...
   G+G                    Dadd11
Sip a beer, and thirteen ....

Come home in the evening, ....

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Corrections are more than welcome. Enjoy!

Jason Groce - [email protected]
Playwriting, Department of Theatre and Dance
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