Backstreets chords by
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
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Key: G major
Intro 1
C
C

G
G

Am
Am

G
G

C
C

G
G

Am
Am

G
G

C
C

G
G

Am
Am

G
G

F
F

F
F

G
G

C
C

F
F

F
F

G
G

C
C

G
G

F
F

G
G

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

Verse 1
C
C

One soft infested summer,
Am
Am

me and Terry became friends
C
C

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was
Am
Am

born in
C
C

Catching rides to the outskirts,
Am
Am

tying faith between our teeth
G
G

Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house,
F
F

getting wasted in the heat
G
G

And
Chorus 1
C
C

F
F

hiding on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

With a love so hard and filled with
C
C

G
G

Am
Am

defeat
F
F

Running for our lives at night on them
C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

backstreets
Verse 2
C
C

Slow dancing in the dark
Am
Am

on the beach at Stockton's Wing
C
C

Where desperate lovers park,
Am
Am

we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
G
G

Huddled in our cars,
F
F

waiting for the bells that ring
Dm
Dm

In the deep heart of the night
F
F

G
G

they set us loose of everything
Chorus 2
C
C

F
F

To go running on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

Running on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

Terry, you swore we'd live forever
C
C

G
G

Am
Am

F
F

C
C

Am
Am

Taking it on them backstreets together
C
C

Am
Am

A
A

Bridge 1
D
D

Bm
Bm

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
D
D

Where dancers scraped the tears up off the
Bm
Bm

street, dressed down in rags
D
D

Bm
Bm

Running into the darkness, some hurt bad,
some really dying
A
A

At night sometimes it seemed you could hear
G
G

the whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us,
A
A

blame it on the truth that ran us down
D
D

You can blame it all on me, Terry,
G
G

it don't matter to me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight,
A
A

there was nothing to say
D
D

But I hated him,
A
A

Bm
Bm

and I hated you when you went a way
E
E

G
G

Wo-oh!
Solo 1
C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

C
C

F
F

Verse 3
C
C

Laying here in the dark,
Am
Am

you're like an angel on my chest
C
C

Just another tramp of hearts
Am
Am

crying tears of faithlessness
G
G

Remember Remember all the movies,
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F

Terry, we'd go see
Dm
Dm

Trying to learn to walk like the heroes
F
F

G
G

we thought we had to be
Am
Am

And after all this time,
Em
Em

to find we're just like all the rest
F
F

G
G

Stranded in the park and forced to confess
Chorus 3
C
C

F
F

To hiding on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

F
F

C
C

G
G

Am
Am

Where we swore forever friends
F
F

C
C

On the backstreets until the end
Bridge 2
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Dm
Dm

Hiding on the backstreets
Bb
Bb

Hiding on the backstreets
G
G

Was all right, we're all
Outro 1
Hiding on the backstreets tonight
C
C

F
F

Hiding on the backstreets
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C

Hiding on the backstreets
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F

Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
F
F

Hiding on the backstreets
C
C

Hiding on the backstreets
F
F

Hiding on the backstreets
G
G

F
F

C
C

F
F

G
G

C
C

F
F

F
F

G
G

C
C

G
G

F
F

Em
Em

Dm
Dm

G
G

C
C

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