Straight Time tab by Bruce Springsteen

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 |---------------|----------------|
B |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----|
G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-|
D |---4-------4---|----4-------4---|
A |---------------|---(0)----------| <----- Bruce plays the open A
D |-0-------------|--0-------------|        string occasionally

   G                                 A7sus4
e |---------------|----------------||---------------|---------------|
B |-------3-3-----|--------3-3-----||-------3-3-----|-------3-3-----|
G |-----0-------0-|------0-------0-||-----0-------0-|-----0-------0-|
D |---0-------0---|----0-------0---||---2-------2---|---2-------2---|
A |---------------|----------------||-0-------------|-0-------------|
D |-5-------------|--5-------------||---------------|---------------|

Intro:  Dadd11

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

Got a job at the rendering plant....
                       G
In the darkness ...
                Dadd11
Sometimes I can ...
        A7sus4                               G
I got a cold mind to go ...
                  Dadd11
I'm sick of doing ...

My uncle's at the evening ....

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

Kitchen floor in the evening ....

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

Come home in the evening, ....

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Corrections are more than welcome.  Enjoy!

Jason Groce - jgroce@mail.utexas.edu
Playwriting, Department of Theatre and Dance
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