Chords for MILLWORKER by Bruce Springsteen

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_ I guess I'm not going to be announced because I think I'm supposed to be a surprise.
I _ personally am surprised.
I thought this was going to be a very small dinner and I was the only [A] one playing.
[E] _ _ I tend to be a bit on the reclusive side.
_ [A] But the [E] night is kind of filled with resonance.
I'm glad to be here with James.
Also, the first gig I ever had after I made an album was opening in Pennsylvania for Cheech and Chong.
_ [A] _ _ [E] I'm glad to be here tonight for James.
James to me was always an authentic Southern voice.
[A] I guess [E] you grew up in Massachusetts but you were born in Carolina, [A] am I right?
[D] The other way around?
[A] Thank God that makes sense [E] with my story here because there was always something deeply
Southern in James' voice.
One night we played in New York and he sang The River and _ he just did such a beautiful
thing with it.
Besides being an incredible songwriter and musician, he's also the star of one of my
all-time favorite films, Tulane Blacktop. _ _ _
Was that the only one?
There was never another one?
That was it?
That was a good one though.
That was a good one to choose.
_ [A] If you haven't seen [E] Tulane Blacktop, see Tulane Blacktop.
He's fabulous.
All _ right.
This is Millworker.
_ _ _ My _
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_ _ _ grandfather was a sailor.
He blew [A] in out the water.
[E] My father was a farmer [C#m] and I his [D] only daughter.
_ _ [E] I took up with no good [A] millworkin'.
A man from Massachusetts [E] who dies from too much whiskey [A] and leaves me [D] these three faces [E] to feed.
_ _ _ Millworkin' ain't [A] easy.
Millworkin' ain't hard.
[E] _ Millworkin' ain't nothin' [A] but a boredin' fuckin' [D] job.
[A] [E] I'm waitin' on my [D] daydream to take me [A] through the morning [E] and put me in my coffee [C#m] break
where I can [D] eat my sandwich _ [A] [E] and remember that _ it's me and my [A] machine for the rest of the
morning [Am] and the rest of the [E] afternoon and the rest of my life.
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[E] _ _ _ Now my mind begins to wander of the days back [A] on the farm.
[E] I can see my daddy _ smilin'.
I can [A] feel myself swingin' [D] on his arm.
[E] I hear my grandpop's stories of the [A] storms out on Lake Erie [E] where vessels and cargos
and fortunes and the lives of young sailors were lost. _
_ _ Yeah, but it's me.
My life's been wasted and I have been the fool to let this manufacturer [A] use my body
[D] for a tool.
[C#m] [E] I'll ride home in the evening _ [A] starin' at my hands
[E] swearin' to my sorrow [A] [F#m] that a young [E] girl [D] oughta [G#] stand [D] a [E] better _ _ _ chance.
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_ _ _ [D] So _ [E] _ _
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I may work your mills just [A] as long as I am able.
_ [E] Though I'll never [F#m] meet the man whose name is [D] on the label.
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_ _ _ [A] Still it's me and my machine for the rest of the morning, [Am] for the rest of the [E] afternoon
_ and on and on for the rest of my life.
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