Backstreets chords by
Bruce Springsteen
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Key: G major

Intro 1
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
F# F# 
 
E E 
 
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m

Verse 1
B B 
 
One soft infested summer,
G#m G#m 
 
me and Terry became friends
B B 
 
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was
G#m G#m 
 
born in
B B 
 
Catching rides to the outskirts,
G#m G#m 
 
tying faith between our teeth
F# F# 
 
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house,
E E 
 
getting wasted in the heat
F# F# 
 
And

Chorus 1
B B 
 
E E 
 
hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
E E 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
E E 
 
With a love so hard and filled with
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
defeat
E E 
 
Running for our lives at night on them
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
backstreets

Verse 2
B B 
 
Slow dancing in the dark
G#m G#m 
 
on the   beach at Stockton's Wing
B B 
 
Where desperate lovers park,
G#m G#m 
 
we sat with the last  of the Duke Street Kings
F# F# 
 
Huddled in our cars,
E E 
 
waiting for the bells that ring
C#m C#m 
 
In the deep  heart of the night
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
they set us loose of everything

Chorus 2
B B 
 
E E 
 
To go running on the backstreets
B B 
 
E E 
 
Running on the backstreets
B B 
 
E E 
 
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
Taking it on them backstreets together
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
G# G#

Bridge 1
Db Db 
 
Bbm Bbm 
 
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
Db Db 
 
Where dancers scraped the tears up off the
Bbm Bbm 
 
street, dressed down in rags
Db Db 
 
Bbm Bbm 
 
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad,
some really dying
Ab Ab 
 
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear
Gb Gb 
 
the whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us,
Ab Ab 
 
blame it on the truth that ran us down
Db Db 
 
You can blame it all on me, Terry,
Gb Gb 
 
it don't matter to me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight,
Ab Ab 
 
there was nothing to say
Db Db 
 
But I hated him,
Ab Ab 
 
Bbm Bbm 
 
and I hated you when you went a     way
Eb Eb 
 
Gb Gb 
 
Wo-oh!

Solo 1

B

G#m

B

G#m

B

G#m

B

E

Verse 3
B B 
 
Laying here in the dark,
G#m G#m 
 
you're like an angel on my chest
B B 
 
Just another tramp of hearts
G#m G#m 
 
crying tears of faithlessness
F# F# 
 
Remember Remember all the movies,
E E 
 
Terry, we'd go see
C#m C#m 
 
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
we thought we had to be
G#m G#m 
 
And after all this time,
D#m D#m 
 
to find we're just  like all the rest
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
Stranded in the park and forced to confess

Chorus 3

B

E

To hiding on the backstreets

B

E

Hiding on the backstreets

B

E

B

F#

G#m

Where we swore forever friends

E

B

On the backstreets until the end

Bridge 2
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
C#m C#m 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
A A 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
F# F# 
 
Was all right, we're all

Outro 1
Hiding on the backstreets tonight
B B 
 
E E 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
E E 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
E E 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
B B 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
E E 
 
Hiding on the backstreets
F# F# 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
E E 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
E E 
 
D#m D#m 
 
C#m C#m 
 
F# F# 
 
B B

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