Straight Time tab by Bruce Springsteen
Guitar Tab
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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