Independence Day bass tab by Bruce Springsteen

Title: INDEPENDENCE DAY
Artist: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Album: ^ÑThe River^Ò (1980)
Transcribed by: Edgar Aguilera, january 2004
beat aprox= 80

F Major key

VERSE 1 no bass
VERSE 2 (0:48)
 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|1-------------1-|----------------|1-------------1-|----------------|
|----------------|1-------------1-|----------------|1-------------1-|
darkness..       best..           darkness..      ..too.

 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|1-------------1-|----------------|3-------------3-|1---------------||
|----------------|1-------------1-|----------------|--------------1-||
touch me..        touch..          do to me..     ..you.

CHORUS (1:13)
 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|------------0---|3---------------|----------------|----------------|
|1---r-1---1---3-|----r-------0---|3---r-3---3---3-|1---r-1---1---0-|
|----------------|------1---1---3-|------------3---|------------1---|
say good-        -pendence..      ^Öpendence...     line.         Just

 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|------------0---|3---------------|----------------|----------------||
|1---r-1---1---3-|----r-------0---|3---r-3---3---3-|1---r-1---1---0-||
|----------------|------1---1---3-|------------3---|------------1---||
say good-        -pendence..      ^Öpendence...    time.

VERSE 3 (1:36)
 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|--------------0-|3---------------|--------------0-|3---------------|
|1-----1---------|----------------|1-----1---------|----------------|
|----------------|------1-------1-|----------------|------1-------1-|
   Now I..        was with us..    words..        ..lines.

 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|--------------0-|3---------------|----------------|----------------||
|1-----1---------|----------------|3-----3-------3-|1-----1-------0-||
|----------------|------1-------3-|----------------|------------1---||
no way..          two of us..      we were..       kind.

CHORUS (2:00) play chorus fig above

SAX SOLO (2:24)
 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|------------0---|3---------------|------------0---|3---------------|
|1--r--1---1---3-|----r-------0---|1---r-1---1---3-|----r-------0---|
|----------------|------1---1---1-|----------------|------1-1-1---1-|

 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|------------0---|3---------------|----------------|----------------||
|1---r-1---1---3-|----r-------0---|3---r-3---3---3-|1---r-1---1---0-||
|----------------|------1---1---3-|------------3---|------------1---||

VERSE 4 (2:47)
 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|--------------0-|3---------------|--------------0-|3---------------|
|1-----1---------|----------------|1-----1---------|----------------|
|----------------|------1-------1-|----------------|------1-------1-|
 rooms..         Frankie^Òs..      highway..        ..Breaker^Òs...

 Bb  .   .   .    F   .   .   .    C   .   .   .    Bb  .   .   .
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
|--------------0-|3---------------|----------------|----------------||
|1-----1---------|----------------|3-----3-------3-|1-----1---------||
|----------------|------1-------3-|----------------|--------------1-||
leaving..         their homes..    walk..           all alone.

VERSE 5 (3:11) play as verse 3

CHORUS (3:35) play chorus fig above

OUTRO (3:59) play twice the SAX SOLO part and fade


. ...beat
/....slide up or down
r....rest
()..ghost note


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