Chords for Bruce Springsteen - Blinded By The Light (solo acoustic) - Helsinki 31 July 2012
Tempo:
106 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
Ab
Bb
C
Cm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I guess it [Eb] actually [Ab] was but I never actually had a number one song.
This was number one by Manfred Mayer.
Yeah.
[Eb] Signed by [Eb] O.P.
[Ab]
[F] [Eb]
This is a good summer [Eb] song.
Beginning of a rainy summer song.
A really good summer song.
I [Abm]
wrote this song in the summertime.
I was in a dingy little [Ebm] apartment on the third [Ab] floor and I used [Eb] a rhyming dictionary when
I [Eb] did it.
It was really hot.
I was living above an [Bb] abandoned beauty salon in Asbury [Abm] Park and I was [G] thinking about [Abm] little
league baseball, masturbation, [Gb] in the name of my grandma.
[Eb] [Eb]
There a man named Robert Ballmer [Ab] sat in his little salon with a teeny little dipper [Eb] lap.
A gift of swimming balls [Ab] and a yellow sun horse.
He's way into his head.
[Eb]
There a load on my shoulder I [Ab] believe in kind of older now.
Tripping, luring [Eb] around.
When his very unpleasing, [Ab] sneezing wheezing, a gliding feet crashed to the [Eb] ground.
Some of all the hot hands [Ab] shot his head.
A hot spot established in his loving [Eb] hands.
Some played his part in playing with cops.
[Ab] I blew a little of his time away.
One night in a row.
[Eb] And now he owes a shot with a sweet shot.
[Ab] I was on a tennis block, frozen, covered in sand.
Some brother shot with the epitaph.
I was with [Ab] daddy at the new shop.
I seen the bookshelf turn in the bin.
[Eb] And she was [Ab] flying, [Bb] flying, [Eb] flying.
[Ab] Flying, [C] flying, flying.
She was [Eb] running in the night.
[Ab] Flying, [Bb] flying, [Cm] flying.
[C] She got down but she never got tight.
But [Ab] she'll be a thorn in your
I [Eb] painted her slum.
[Ab]
[Bb] [Eb] Some bristled [Ab] ragged tone.
Anticyclone, roll of stone.
Freezing from the east.
[Eb] He says he's from the dictaphone.
[Ab] Hidden in his funny bone.
Yeah, that's where the expected is.
[Eb] Some boo-bow chaperone was standing in the corner all alone.
Watching the young girls dance.
[Eb] Some fresh song, a little stone.
[Ab] Was tapping with his frozen soul.
To remind him of
He don't [Eb] know what I'm writing.
He was flying, [Bb] flying, flying.
Couldn't look like he was in a [Eb] hurry tonight.
[Ab] He was [Bb] flying, flying, [Cm] flying.
He got down but he never got tight.
[Ab] He's the location, alright.
[Eb]
[Bb] Some silly storm sister.
Well, her manager's [C] mister.
[Ab] Told me I've got what it takes.
[Eb] She said [Bb] I'll turn you on.
Selling you something strong.
If [Ab] you'll play that song with a fork in me.
[Eb] [Bb] And go cart, bull, shark.
Checking out the weather chart.
[Ab] See if I'm safe and go outside.
[Bb] And then a lonely person came by.
And he said, Curly, what are you [Ab] doing?
Asked me if I'd give him a ride.
[Bb] Oh!
Some [Eb] man's drinking hard.
He was spent on beer.
Laying back yard, my [Eb] dear.
Yes, down the yard, he's trying hard.
I said, some dude from the party.
He said, dude, you might just go to the heater.
Well, I jumped up, turned [Ab] around.
I said, you know what?
I'm going back [Eb] home.
He said, say everybody that I like.
Keep going [Ab] straight, everybody.
Oh, and then, boy, you're on your [Eb] own.
I was at the bar shooting stars.
[Ab] Was riding in a side car.
Hovering over the gym.
[Eb] Yeah, and the avatar said, blow the bar.
[Ab] Press through the cookie jar.
I'm going to teach those [Ab] boys a little piece.
[Eb] And some kidnap, handicap,
was [Ab] complaining that he caught the clap
from some half-strap he bought last night.
[Eb] Well, I'm going to snap the straw cap
between [Ab] his ears and saw his gasp.
But, figure it'd be all [Eb] right.
Ain't no [Cm] rush to find [Bb] it out [Eb] of line.
Curve [Ab] loose like [Bb] this,
on [Eb] the border of the night.
[Ab] My head [Bb] is fire.
[Cm]
[C] I'm always coming out
looking in the sights [Ab] of the sun.
[Eb] Oh, but why would I [Ab] sweat the burnings?
[Eb] Here we go.
I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] I [Ab] will find it.
[Eb] [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I will find it.
[Eb] [Ab]
[Eb] [Ab]
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
This was number one by Manfred Mayer.
Yeah.
[Eb] Signed by [Eb] O.P.
[Ab]
[F] [Eb]
This is a good summer [Eb] song.
Beginning of a rainy summer song.
A really good summer song.
I [Abm]
wrote this song in the summertime.
I was in a dingy little [Ebm] apartment on the third [Ab] floor and I used [Eb] a rhyming dictionary when
I [Eb] did it.
It was really hot.
I was living above an [Bb] abandoned beauty salon in Asbury [Abm] Park and I was [G] thinking about [Abm] little
league baseball, masturbation, [Gb] in the name of my grandma.
[Eb] [Eb]
There a man named Robert Ballmer [Ab] sat in his little salon with a teeny little dipper [Eb] lap.
A gift of swimming balls [Ab] and a yellow sun horse.
He's way into his head.
[Eb]
There a load on my shoulder I [Ab] believe in kind of older now.
Tripping, luring [Eb] around.
When his very unpleasing, [Ab] sneezing wheezing, a gliding feet crashed to the [Eb] ground.
Some of all the hot hands [Ab] shot his head.
A hot spot established in his loving [Eb] hands.
Some played his part in playing with cops.
[Ab] I blew a little of his time away.
One night in a row.
[Eb] And now he owes a shot with a sweet shot.
[Ab] I was on a tennis block, frozen, covered in sand.
Some brother shot with the epitaph.
I was with [Ab] daddy at the new shop.
I seen the bookshelf turn in the bin.
[Eb] And she was [Ab] flying, [Bb] flying, [Eb] flying.
[Ab] Flying, [C] flying, flying.
She was [Eb] running in the night.
[Ab] Flying, [Bb] flying, [Cm] flying.
[C] She got down but she never got tight.
But [Ab] she'll be a thorn in your
I [Eb] painted her slum.
[Ab]
[Bb] [Eb] Some bristled [Ab] ragged tone.
Anticyclone, roll of stone.
Freezing from the east.
[Eb] He says he's from the dictaphone.
[Ab] Hidden in his funny bone.
Yeah, that's where the expected is.
[Eb] Some boo-bow chaperone was standing in the corner all alone.
Watching the young girls dance.
[Eb] Some fresh song, a little stone.
[Ab] Was tapping with his frozen soul.
To remind him of
He don't [Eb] know what I'm writing.
He was flying, [Bb] flying, flying.
Couldn't look like he was in a [Eb] hurry tonight.
[Ab] He was [Bb] flying, flying, [Cm] flying.
He got down but he never got tight.
[Ab] He's the location, alright.
[Eb]
[Bb] Some silly storm sister.
Well, her manager's [C] mister.
[Ab] Told me I've got what it takes.
[Eb] She said [Bb] I'll turn you on.
Selling you something strong.
If [Ab] you'll play that song with a fork in me.
[Eb] [Bb] And go cart, bull, shark.
Checking out the weather chart.
[Ab] See if I'm safe and go outside.
[Bb] And then a lonely person came by.
And he said, Curly, what are you [Ab] doing?
Asked me if I'd give him a ride.
[Bb] Oh!
Some [Eb] man's drinking hard.
He was spent on beer.
Laying back yard, my [Eb] dear.
Yes, down the yard, he's trying hard.
I said, some dude from the party.
He said, dude, you might just go to the heater.
Well, I jumped up, turned [Ab] around.
I said, you know what?
I'm going back [Eb] home.
He said, say everybody that I like.
Keep going [Ab] straight, everybody.
Oh, and then, boy, you're on your [Eb] own.
I was at the bar shooting stars.
[Ab] Was riding in a side car.
Hovering over the gym.
[Eb] Yeah, and the avatar said, blow the bar.
[Ab] Press through the cookie jar.
I'm going to teach those [Ab] boys a little piece.
[Eb] And some kidnap, handicap,
was [Ab] complaining that he caught the clap
from some half-strap he bought last night.
[Eb] Well, I'm going to snap the straw cap
between [Ab] his ears and saw his gasp.
But, figure it'd be all [Eb] right.
Ain't no [Cm] rush to find [Bb] it out [Eb] of line.
Curve [Ab] loose like [Bb] this,
on [Eb] the border of the night.
[Ab] My head [Bb] is fire.
[Cm]
[C] I'm always coming out
looking in the sights [Ab] of the sun.
[Eb] Oh, but why would I [Ab] sweat the burnings?
[Eb] Here we go.
I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] I [Ab] will find it.
[Eb] [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I will find it.
[Eb] [Ab]
[Eb] [Ab]
[Eb]
[Ab] [Eb]
Key:
Eb
Ab
Bb
C
Cm
Eb
Ab
Bb
I _ _ _ guess _ _ _ it [Eb] actually [Ab] was _ but I never actually had a number one song.
This was number one by Manfred Mayer. _ _ _
Yeah.
_ [Eb] Signed by [Eb] O.P. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ This is a good summer [Eb] song.
Beginning of a rainy summer song.
_ A really good summer song.
_ _ _ _ _ I [Abm] _
wrote this song in the summertime.
_ I was in a dingy little [Ebm] apartment on the third [Ab] floor and I used [Eb] a rhyming dictionary when
I [Eb] did it. _ _ _
It was really hot.
I was living above an [Bb] abandoned beauty salon in Asbury [Abm] Park _ and _ I was [G] thinking about [Abm] little
league baseball, masturbation, [Gb] in the name of my grandma.
_ [Eb] _ [Eb] _ _ _
There a man named Robert Ballmer [Ab] sat in his little salon with a teeny little dipper [Eb] lap. _ _
A gift of swimming balls [Ab] and a yellow sun horse.
He's way into his head.
[Eb] _ _
There a load on my shoulder I [Ab] believe in kind of older now.
Tripping, luring [Eb] around. _ _
When his very _ unpleasing, [Ab] sneezing wheezing, a gliding feet crashed to the [Eb] ground. _ _
Some of all the hot hands [Ab] shot his head.
A hot spot established in his loving [Eb] hands. _
Some played his part in playing with cops.
[Ab] I blew a little of his time away.
One night in a row.
[Eb] _ _ And now he owes a shot with a sweet shot.
[Ab] I was on a tennis block, frozen, covered in sand.
_ _ Some brother shot with the epitaph.
I was with [Ab] daddy at the new shop.
I seen the bookshelf turn in the bin.
[Eb] And she was [Ab] flying, [Bb] flying, [Eb] flying. _ _ _
[Ab] Flying, [C] flying, flying.
She was [Eb] running in the night. _ _
[Ab] Flying, [Bb] flying, [Cm] flying. _ _
[C] She got down but she never got tight.
But [Ab] she'll be a thorn in your_
I [Eb] painted her slum.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] Some bristled [Ab] ragged tone.
Anticyclone, roll of stone.
Freezing from the east.
[Eb] _ _ He says he's from the dictaphone.
[Ab] Hidden in his funny bone.
Yeah, that's where the expected is.
_ [Eb] _ _ Some boo-bow chaperone was standing in the corner all alone.
Watching the young girls dance.
[Eb] _ _ Some fresh song, a little stone.
[Ab] Was tapping with his frozen soul.
To remind him of_
He don't [Eb] know what I'm writing.
_ He was flying, [Bb] flying, flying.
_ Couldn't look like he was in a [Eb] hurry tonight.
[Ab] He was [Bb] flying, flying, [Cm] flying.
_ _ He got down but he never got tight.
[Ab] He's the location, alright.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Some silly storm sister.
Well, her manager's [C] mister.
[Ab] Told me I've got what it takes.
[Eb] _ She said [Bb] I'll turn you on.
Selling you something strong.
If [Ab] you'll play that song with a fork in me.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] And go cart, bull, shark.
Checking out the weather chart.
[Ab] See if I'm safe and go outside.
_ _ [Bb] And then a lonely person came by.
And he said, Curly, what are you [Ab] doing?
Asked me if I'd give him a ride.
[Bb] Oh! _ _ _ _
Some [Eb] man's drinking hard.
He was spent on beer.
Laying back yard, my [Eb] dear. _ _
Yes, down the yard, he's trying hard.
I said, some dude from the party.
He said, dude, you might just go to the heater. _ _
Well, I jumped up, turned [Ab] around.
I said, you know what?
I'm going back [Eb] home.
_ He said, say everybody that I like.
Keep going [Ab] straight, everybody.
Oh, and then, boy, you're on your [Eb] own.
_ I was at the bar shooting stars.
[Ab] Was riding in a side car.
Hovering over the gym.
_ [Eb] _ _ Yeah, and the avatar said, blow the bar.
[Ab] Press through the cookie jar.
I'm going to teach those [Ab] boys a little piece.
_ [Eb] _ _ And some kidnap, handicap,
was [Ab] complaining that he caught the clap
from some half-strap he bought last night.
[Eb] _ _ Well, I'm going to snap the straw cap
between [Ab] his ears and saw his gasp.
But, figure it'd be all [Eb] right.
Ain't no [Cm] rush to find [Bb] it out [Eb] of line.
Curve [Ab] loose like [Bb] this,
on [Eb] the border of the night.
[Ab] My head [Bb] is fire.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[C] I'm always coming out
looking in the sights [Ab] of the sun.
_ _ _ [Eb] Oh, but why would I [Ab] sweat the _ burnings?
[Eb] Here we go.
I will [Ab] find it.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] I will find it.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] I _ [Ab] will find it.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I _ will find it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This was number one by Manfred Mayer. _ _ _
Yeah.
_ [Eb] Signed by [Eb] O.P. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ This is a good summer [Eb] song.
Beginning of a rainy summer song.
_ A really good summer song.
_ _ _ _ _ I [Abm] _
wrote this song in the summertime.
_ I was in a dingy little [Ebm] apartment on the third [Ab] floor and I used [Eb] a rhyming dictionary when
I [Eb] did it. _ _ _
It was really hot.
I was living above an [Bb] abandoned beauty salon in Asbury [Abm] Park _ and _ I was [G] thinking about [Abm] little
league baseball, masturbation, [Gb] in the name of my grandma.
_ [Eb] _ [Eb] _ _ _
There a man named Robert Ballmer [Ab] sat in his little salon with a teeny little dipper [Eb] lap. _ _
A gift of swimming balls [Ab] and a yellow sun horse.
He's way into his head.
[Eb] _ _
There a load on my shoulder I [Ab] believe in kind of older now.
Tripping, luring [Eb] around. _ _
When his very _ unpleasing, [Ab] sneezing wheezing, a gliding feet crashed to the [Eb] ground. _ _
Some of all the hot hands [Ab] shot his head.
A hot spot established in his loving [Eb] hands. _
Some played his part in playing with cops.
[Ab] I blew a little of his time away.
One night in a row.
[Eb] _ _ And now he owes a shot with a sweet shot.
[Ab] I was on a tennis block, frozen, covered in sand.
_ _ Some brother shot with the epitaph.
I was with [Ab] daddy at the new shop.
I seen the bookshelf turn in the bin.
[Eb] And she was [Ab] flying, [Bb] flying, [Eb] flying. _ _ _
[Ab] Flying, [C] flying, flying.
She was [Eb] running in the night. _ _
[Ab] Flying, [Bb] flying, [Cm] flying. _ _
[C] She got down but she never got tight.
But [Ab] she'll be a thorn in your_
I [Eb] painted her slum.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] Some bristled [Ab] ragged tone.
Anticyclone, roll of stone.
Freezing from the east.
[Eb] _ _ He says he's from the dictaphone.
[Ab] Hidden in his funny bone.
Yeah, that's where the expected is.
_ [Eb] _ _ Some boo-bow chaperone was standing in the corner all alone.
Watching the young girls dance.
[Eb] _ _ Some fresh song, a little stone.
[Ab] Was tapping with his frozen soul.
To remind him of_
He don't [Eb] know what I'm writing.
_ He was flying, [Bb] flying, flying.
_ Couldn't look like he was in a [Eb] hurry tonight.
[Ab] He was [Bb] flying, flying, [Cm] flying.
_ _ He got down but he never got tight.
[Ab] He's the location, alright.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Some silly storm sister.
Well, her manager's [C] mister.
[Ab] Told me I've got what it takes.
[Eb] _ She said [Bb] I'll turn you on.
Selling you something strong.
If [Ab] you'll play that song with a fork in me.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] And go cart, bull, shark.
Checking out the weather chart.
[Ab] See if I'm safe and go outside.
_ _ [Bb] And then a lonely person came by.
And he said, Curly, what are you [Ab] doing?
Asked me if I'd give him a ride.
[Bb] Oh! _ _ _ _
Some [Eb] man's drinking hard.
He was spent on beer.
Laying back yard, my [Eb] dear. _ _
Yes, down the yard, he's trying hard.
I said, some dude from the party.
He said, dude, you might just go to the heater. _ _
Well, I jumped up, turned [Ab] around.
I said, you know what?
I'm going back [Eb] home.
_ He said, say everybody that I like.
Keep going [Ab] straight, everybody.
Oh, and then, boy, you're on your [Eb] own.
_ I was at the bar shooting stars.
[Ab] Was riding in a side car.
Hovering over the gym.
_ [Eb] _ _ Yeah, and the avatar said, blow the bar.
[Ab] Press through the cookie jar.
I'm going to teach those [Ab] boys a little piece.
_ [Eb] _ _ And some kidnap, handicap,
was [Ab] complaining that he caught the clap
from some half-strap he bought last night.
[Eb] _ _ Well, I'm going to snap the straw cap
between [Ab] his ears and saw his gasp.
But, figure it'd be all [Eb] right.
Ain't no [Cm] rush to find [Bb] it out [Eb] of line.
Curve [Ab] loose like [Bb] this,
on [Eb] the border of the night.
[Ab] My head [Bb] is fire.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
[C] I'm always coming out
looking in the sights [Ab] of the sun.
_ _ _ [Eb] Oh, but why would I [Ab] sweat the _ burnings?
[Eb] Here we go.
I will [Ab] find it.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] I will find it.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ I will [Ab] find it.
[Eb] I _ [Ab] will find it.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] I will find it.
[Eb] I _ will find it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _