Brooklyn Bridge chords by 
Bobby Bare 
N/A
Key: F major•
Intro 1
F
Bb
C
F
Verse 1
F
Oh, there I stood
Bb
in the great big city
C
Where the buildings tall and
F
the girls're all pretty
Bb
Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son
C
Bb
C
Db
Bb
I got a big deal now if you got the mon'"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
C
With two dollars, two cigarettes and an
F
C
auto graph picture of Elvis
F
Well, I kep t my
Verse 2
Bb
bridge for a day or so
C
F
But then my money was runnin' low
Bb
And I tried to make me a sale
C
But the man done come
Bb
and he took me to jail
Verse 3
Bb
C
Said I's crazy, laughed at me
F
C
Told me that society frowned upon it
F
Well, then he stood me
Bb
up in a front of a judge
C
I stood there grinnin' but
F
the judge didn't budge
Verse 4
F
Bb
He said 30 dollars or 30 days
C
Bb
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars,
C
couldn't make that 35, could you?
F
C
Spend all my money on that bridge"
F
Well, after
Verse 5
Bb
90 days in that man's jail
C
F
I still tryin' to make me a sale
Bb
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
C
Bb
So I traded it off for 52nd Street
C
Big deal, oh big man of action
F
A big transaction
C
Verse 6
F
I bet the folk s back home
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could never realize
C
F
That in a great big town this size
Bb
Boy like theirs could own the street
C
Bb
Spend his days just to
keepin' it neat
Verse 7
Bb
Pickin' up cigarette butts,
C
F
wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians,
shoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete
ain't got no pigeons
On that Brooklyn Bridge
And I bet he can't trade that
bridge off either
Because a man gonna come
take him down
Ain't that bad?
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF Bb C Db
F
Bb
C
Db
Capo: 3
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