Child Bride chords by Bruce Springsteen

Child Bride-Bruce Springsteen



Tuning:EADGBE


A "Nebraska" outtake that was turned into "Working on the Highway" on the "Born in the U.S.A." album


Play the D Dsus2 D progression as..

e|-2--2---0-0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3--3---3-3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2--2---2-2---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-x--x---x-x---------------------------------------------------------------------|

 D                   G        A                   D    Dsus2       D
Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work

 D                   G        A              D    Dsus2       D
Talking about the weekend tryin' to scrub off the dirt

 D                              G        A           D    Dsus2       D
Some heading home to their families some wearing trouble on their shirts

 D                           G        A             D    Dsus2       D
Some driving down to Stovall just looking to get hurt


 D                   G        A         D    Dsus2       D
I work for the county out on 95

 D                   G         A              D    Dsus2       D
Just holdin' that red flag watchin' the traffic pass me by

 D                   G        A                     D    Dsus2       D
All day I keep a picture of my baby in my head

 D                   G            A             D    Dsus2       D
At night I dream I'm with her, laying in my bunkhouse bed


G D A

 D                   G         A                     D    Dsus2       D
Seen her at the canteen down at the Legion hall

 D                         G        A              D    Dsus2       D
She came in with her brothers standin' back up against the wall

 D                   G          A               D    Dsus2       D
Me and her we'd go walking down by the union tracks

 D                   G              A               D    Dsus2       D
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back


 D                   G        A                     D    Dsus2       D
Grey clouds stretch across the white moon

 D                   G                 A            D    Dsus2       D
Sitting in the backyard in my old car, we hum out of tune

 D                   G          A                  D    Dsus2       D
Well I saved up my money and I put it all away

 D                   G          A                  D    Dsus2       D
I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say

 D                   G               A              D    Dsus2       D
Said "Now son can't you see that she's just a little girl

 D                   G                A           D    Dsus2       D
Who don't know nothing 'bout the meanness in this world"


 D                   G        A                     D    Dsus2       D
Took off down to Florida we got along all right

 D                         G        A               D    Dsus2       D
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white

 D                          G        A             D    Dsus2       D
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day

 D                         G         A              D    Dsus2       D
She was sad and the judge was mad and he put me straight away


Bridge

 G                       A
Well they said she was too young

 G                         A
She was no younger than I've been

 G                         A                           D    Dsus2       D
When she put her arms around me and the night closed in


 D                   G        A                     D    Dsus2       D
Well sometimes I dream of getting out of here

 D                   G              A          D    Dsus2       D
Heading down towards them old tracks

 D                           G           A          D    Dsus2       D
I swore I'd come and get her, but I know I ain't never going back


 D                      G        A                 D    Dsus2       D
There's nights I can't sleep, no matter how hard I try

 D               G        A                      D    Dsus2       D
So from my window I watch the moonlight fall on the far hillside

 D                           G        A             D    Dsus2       D
I imagine I put on my jacket, and go down to this little roadside bar

 D                         G        A              D    Dsus2       D
Pick a stranger and spin around the dance floor to a Mexican guitar


D G A (till fade)

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