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Up On The Roof Chords by Bruce Springsteen

Up On The Roof chords by Bruce Springsteen

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: intermediate


F#  D#m  B  C#   or   F#  D#m  B   C# (for Steven's lead part)
e|-2--6--x--x---------x---11---x---x------------------------------------------|
B|-2--7--4--6---------11--11---12--9------------------------------------------|
G|-3--8--4--6---------11--11---11--10-----------------------------------------|
D|-4--8--4--6---------11--13---13--11-----------------------------------------|
A|-4--6--2--4---------x---11---x---x------------------------------------------|
E|-2--x--x--x---------x---x----x---x-------------------------------------------|

F#                         D#m
 When this old world starts getting me down
     B                C#                      F#
And people are just too much for me to face
                             D#m
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
     B                C#                    F#
And all my cares just drift right into space
B
On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
     F#                 D#m             B     C#
And there the world below don't bother me

F#                         D#m
When I come home feelin' tired and beat
     B                C#                      F#
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet (up on the roof)
                           D#m
I get away from the hustling crowd
   B                C#                      F#
And all that rat-race noise down in the street (up on the roof)

B
On the roof, the only place I know
     F#             D#m                B   C#
Where you just have to wish to make it so


 F#                      D#m
Right smack dab in the middle of town
               B             C#                           F#
I've found a paradise that's trouble proof
                         D#m
And if this world starts getting you down
         B               C#
There's room enough for two
           F#       D#m
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
           B            C#
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
              B         C#
Oh, come on, baby (up on the roof)
              B   C#
Oh, come on, honey (up on the roof)

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Bruce Springsteen chords for Up on the roof

About this song

During Bruce Springsteen and the E-street band's 1975 "Borne to run"-tour they would play this cover of The Drifter's "Up on the roof". "Up on the roof" is written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.