SPRINGSTEEN BRUCE - "straight time" Tablature

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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:39:04 -0600
From: jgroce@mail.utexas.edu (Jason Groce)
Subject: TAB: STRAIGHT TIME 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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