Straight Time chords by Bruce Springsteen

SimplifiedD · G · A

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Verse 1
D 
 (D major) Got out of prison back in
'86 and I found me a wife
G 
Walked the clean and  (G major) narrow
D 
Just tryin' to stay out and  (D major) stay alive
Got a job at the rendering
factory,it ain't gonna make me rich
In the darkness before
G 
 (G major) dinner comes
D 
Sometimes I can  (D major) feel the it
A 
I got a cold  (A major) mind to go trip
D 
G 
 (D major) ping across that  (G major) thin line
D 
I'm sick of doin straight  (D major) time

Verse 2
D 
My uncles at the evenin'  (D major) table
makes his living runnin' hot cars
G 
Slips me a hundred  (G major) dollar bill, says
"Charlie, you best remember
D 
who your  (D major) friend are."
A 
I got a cold  (A major) mind to go trip
D 
G 
 (D major) ping across that  (G major) thin line
D 
I ain't makin' straight  (D major) time

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Verse 3

Eight years in,

it feels like you're gonna die

But you get used to anything

Sooner or later it becomes your life

Verse 4
D 
Kitchen floor in  (D major) the evening,
tossin' my little babies high
Mary's smilin',
G 
D 
but she  (G major) watches me out of the corner  (D major) of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
G 
I step out onto the  (G major) front porch,
D 
and suck the cold air deep in (D major) side of me
A 
Got a cold  (A major) mind to go tripping
G 
cross that  (G major) thin line
D 
I'm sick of doin' straight  (D major) 

Verse 5
time
D 
 (D major) 
G 
In the basement,  (G major) 
D 
huntin' gun  (D major) and a hacksaw
G 
Sip a beer, and thir (G major) teen inches
D 
of barrel drop  (D major) to the floor

Verse 6
D 
Come home in the  (D major) evening,
can't get the smell from my hands
G 
Lay my head down on the  (G major) pillow
D 
And, go driftin' off into  (D major) foreign lands