The Hitter chords by Bruce Springsteen

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Verse 1
G 
 (G major) Come to the door, Ma,
C 
G 
 (C major) and  unlock the  (G major) chain
I was just passin' through and
C 
got caught in the  (C major) rain
There's nothin' I want, nothin'
G 
that you need  (G major) say
Just let me lie down for a while
D 
G 
and I'll  (D major) be on my  (G major) way
C 
I was no more than a kid when you put me  (C major) on the Southern

Verse 2
G 
 (G major) 
Queen
With the police on my back
C 
I fled to New  (C major) Orleans
I fought in the dockyards and with the money I
G 
 (G major) made
I knew the fight was my home
and blood was my trade
C 
Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula,  (C major) and Lafayette

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Verse 3
G 
 (G major) 
town
Well they paid me their money,
C 
Ma, I knocked the men  (C major) down
I did what I did well it come
G 
eas (G major) ily
Restraint and mercy,
D 
G 
C 
Ma, were always  (D major) strangers to  (G major) me  (C major) 
G 
C 
 (G major)  (C major) 

Verse 4
G 
 (G major) 
I fought champion Jack Thompson in a
C 
G 
 (C major) field full of  (G major) mud
Rain poured through the tent to the canvas
C 
and mixed with our  (C major) blood
In the twelfth I slipped my tongue
G 
over my broken  (G major) jaw
I stood over him and pounded his bloody
C 
body into the  (C major) floor
Well the bell rang and rang and
G 
still I  (G major) kept  on
'Till I felt my glove leather slip
'tween his skin and bone
C 
Then the women and the money came fast and the  (C major) days I lost

Verse 5
G 
 (G major) 
track
The women red, the money green,
C 
but the numbers were  (C major) black
I fought for the men in their silk suits
G 
to lay down their  (G major) bets
I took my good share, Ma, I have
no regrets

Verse 6
G 
Then I took the fix at the state armory with big John  (G major) 
McDowell
From high in the rafters
C 
I watched myself  (C major) fall
As they raised his arm my stomach
G 
twisted and the sky it went  (G major) black
I stuffed my bag with their good money
D 
G 
and I  (D major) never looked  (G major) back
C 
 (C major) Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the

Verse 7
G 
 (G major) 
game
If you know me one different then
speak out his name
C 
 (C major) Ma, if my voice now
you don't recognize
G 
Then just open  (G major) the door and look
D 
G 
in (D major) to your  (G major) dark eyes
C 
 (C major) I ask of you nothin', not
a kiss not a smile,
G 
Just  (G major) open the door and let me
D 
lie  (D major) down for a while
G 
 (G major) Now

Verse 8
the gray rain's fallin' and my
C 
G 
 (C major) ring fightin's done  (G major) 
So in the work fields and alleys I take all
C 
who'll  (C major) come
If you're a better man than me then
G 
just step to the  (G major) line
Show me your money and speak out
C 
your  (C major) crime
Now there's nothin' I want, Ma, nothin'
G 
that you need  (G major) say
Just let me lie down for a while and
D 
G 
I'll  (D major) be on my  (G major) way

Verse 9
G 
Tonight in the shipyard a man draws a circle  (G major) 
in the dirt
I move to the center and I take off
C 
my  (C major) shirt
I study him for the cuts, the scars,
the pain,
G 
Man, nor time can  (G major) erase
I move hard to the left and
C 
G 
C 
I strike to the  (C major) face  (G major)  (C major) 
G 
C 
G 
 (G major)  (C major)  (G major) 