Black Cowboys

Black Cowboys easy guitar chords by Bruce Springsteen

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  • Verse 1
    Rainey 
    Williams' playground 
    was 
    the Mott 
    Haven 
    streets 
    where he 
    ran 
    past 
    melted 
    candles 
    and 
    flower 
    wreaths, 
    names 
    and 
    photos 
    of 
    young 
    black 
    faces, 
    whose 
    death 
    and 
    blood 
    consecrated 
    these 
    places. 
    Rainey's 
    mother 
    said, 

    "Rainey 
    stay 
    at 
    my 
    side, 
    for you 
    are 
    my 
    blessing 
    you are 
    my 
    pride. 
    It's 
    your 
    love 
    here 
    that 
    keeps 
    my 
    soul 
    alive. 
    I want 
    you to 
    come home 
    from 
    school 
    and stay 
    in
    side." 

    Verse 2
    Rainey'd do his 
    work 
    and 
    put his 
    books 
    away. 
    There 
    was a 
    channel 
    showed 
    a western 
    movie 
    everyday. 
    Lynette 
    brought 
    him home 
    books 
    on the 
    black 
    cowboys 
    of the Oklahoma 
    range 
    and the 
    Seminole 
    scouts 
    who 
    fought 
    the tribes 

    of the Great 
    Plains. 
    Summer 
    come 
    and 
    the days 
    grew 
    long. 
    Rainey 
    always 
    had his 
    mother's 
    smile 
    to de
    pend 
    on. 
    Along 
    a street 
    of stray 
    bullets 
    he 
    made 
    his 
    way, 
    to 
    the 
    warmth 
    of her 
    arm
    at 
    the 
    en
    d of 
    each 
    day. 

    Verse 3

    Come the 
    fall 
    the rain 
    flooded 
    these 
    homes, 
    here in 
    Ezekiel's 
    valley 
    of 
    dry 
    bones, 
    it 
    fell 
    hard 
    and 
    dark 
    to 
    the ground. 
    It 
    fell 
    without 
    a sound. 
    Lynette 
    took 
    up with 
    a man 
    whose 
    business 
    was the 
    boulevard, 

    whose smile 
    was 
    fixed 
    in a face 
    that 
    was never 
    off 
    guard. 
    In the 
    pipes 
    'neath 
    the kitchen 
    sink 
    his 
    secret
    he kept. 
    In the 
    day, 
    behind 
    drawn 
    curtains, 
    in 
    Lynette's bedroom 
    he slept. 

    Verse 4

    Then 
    she got 
    lost 
    in 
    the 
    days. 
    The smile 
    Rainey 
    depended 
    on 
    dusted 
    away, 

    the 
    arms 
    that 
    held 
    him 
    were 
    no 
    more 
    his home. 
    He lay 
    at 
    night 
    his 
    head 
    pressed 
    to her 
    chest 
    listening 
    to the ghost 
    in 
    her bones. 

    Verse 5

    In 
    the 
    kitchen 
    Rainey 
    slipped 
    his hand 
    between 
    the 
    pipes. 
    From a brown 
    bag 
    pulled 
    five 
    hundred 
    dollar 
    bills 
    and stuck 
    it in his 
    coat 
    side, 

    stood 
    in 
    the dark 
    at his 
    mother's 
    bed, 
    brushed 
    her hair 
    and 
    kissed 
    her 
    eyes. 

    Verse 6
    In 
    the twilight 
    Rainey 
    walked 
    to the station 
    along streets 
    of stone. 
    Through 
    Pennsylvani
    and Ohio 
    his train 
    drif
    ted on. 
    Through 
    the small 
    towns 
    of 
    Indiana 
    the 
    big 
    train 
    crept, 
    as 
    he lay 
    his 
    head 
    back 
    on 
    the seat 
    and 
    slept. 
    He awoke 
    and 
    the towns 
    gave 
    way 
    to muddy 
    fields 
    of 
    green, 

    corn 
    and 
    cot
    ton 
    and 
    an 
    endless 
    nothin' 
    in between. 
    Over the 
    rutted 
    hills 
    of Oklahoma 
    the red 
    sun 
    slipped 
    and was 
    gone. 
    The moon 
    rose 
    and stripped 
    the earth 
    to 
    its 
    bone. 

    Outro 1

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