I Hung My Head chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G

Verse:
 G+G          E minorEm
Early one morning, with time to kill

  G+G             E minorEm
I borrowed Jeb's rifle, and sat on the hill

  G+G          E minorEm
I saw a lone rider, crossing the plane

   G+G            E minorEm
I drew a beed on him, to practice my aim

 A minorAm           D MajorD
My Brother's rifle went off in my hand

  A minorAm        G+G
A augmentedA shot rang out across the land

   C majorC              G+G
The horse he kept running, the rider was dead

Chorus:
  G+G         E minorEm         G+G
I hung my head, I hung my head, I hung my head,


Verse:
 G+G            E minorEm
I set off running, to wake from this dream

 G+G           E minorEm
My brother's rifle, went into the stream

 G+G           E minorEm
I kept on running, into the salt lands

  G+G                E minorEm
That's where they found me, my head in my hands

 A minorAm             D MajorD
The sheriff he asked me, why had I run

 A minorAm            G+G
Then it came to me, just what I had done

  C majorC           G+G
And all for no reason, just one piece of lead

Chorus:
  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head

  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head


Solo:
G+G  E minorEm (X4)
A minorAm D MajorD
C majorC  G+G
G MajorG  E minorEm (X2)

Verse:
 G+G               E minorEm
Here in the courthouse, the whole town is there

 G+G          E minorEm
I see the judge, high up in his chair:

   G+G            E minorEm
"Explain to the courtroom, what went through your mind

    G+G          E minorEm
And we'll ask the jury, what verdict they find"

  A minorAm              D MajorD
I said "I felt the power, of death over life

        A minorAm              D MajorD
(The power to) orphaned his children, widowed his wife

  C majorC            G+G
I ask no forgiveness, I wish I was dead"


Chorus:
 G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head

 G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head


Verse:
 G+G          E minorEm
Early one morning, with time to kill

 G+G          E minorEm
I see the gallows, up on the hill

 G+G             E minorEm
Out in the distance, a trick of the brain

  G+G          E minorEm
I see a lone rider, crossing the plain

 A minorAm              D MajorD
He's come to give me, to see what they done

 A minorAm            D MajorD
We'll ride together, till kingdom come

  C majorC            G+G
I ask for no mercy, for soon I'll be dead


Chorus:
  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head

  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head

  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head

  G+G         E minorEm
I hung my head, I hung my head


Outro:
G+G  E minorEm (X4)
A minorAm D MajorD (X2)
C majorC  G+G
G MajorG  E minorEm (X4)

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