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The Hitter easy guitar chords by
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

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Verse 1
G

Come to the door, Ma,
C
G

and unlock the chain

I was just passin' through and
C

got caught in the rain

There's nothin' I want, nothin'
G

that you need say

Just let me lie down for a while
D
G

and I'll be on my way
C
I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern
Verse 2
G


Queen

With the police on my back
C

I fled to New Orleans

I fought in the dockyards and with the money I
G

made

I knew the fight was my home

and blood was my trade
C
Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula, and Lafayette
Verse 3
G


town

Well they paid me their money,
C

Ma, I knocked the men down

I did what I did well it come
G

easily

Restraint and mercy,
D
G
C

Ma, were always strangers to me
G
C
Verse 4
G


I fought champion Jack Thompson in a
C
G

field full of mud

Rain poured through the tent to the canvas
C

and mixed with our blood

In the twelfth I slipped my tongue
G

over my broken jaw

I stood over him and pounded his bloody
C

body into the floor

Well the bell rang and rang and
G

still I 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 days I lost
Verse 5
G


track

The women red, the money green,
C

but the numbers were black

I fought for the men in their silk suits
G

to lay down their 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

McDowell

From high in the rafters
C

I watched myself fall

As they raised his arm my stomach
G

twisted and the sky it went black

I stuffed my bag with their good money
D
G

and I never looked back
C
Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the
Verse 7
G


game

If you know me one different then

speak out his name
C

Ma, if my voice now

you don't recognize
G

Then just open the door and look
D
G

into your dark eyes
C

I ask of you nothin', not

a kiss not a smile,
G

Just open the door and let me
D

lie down for a while
G
Now
Verse 8

the gray rain's fallin' and my
C
G

ring fightin's done

So in the work fields and alleys I take all
C

who'll come

If you're a better man than me then
G

just step to the line

Show me your money and speak out
C

your crime

Now there's nothin' I want, Ma, nothin'
G

that you need say

Just let me lie down for a while and
D
G

I'll be on my way
Verse 9
G

Tonight in the shipyard a man draws a circle

in the dirt

I move to the center and I take off
C

my shirt

I study him for the cuts, the scars,

the pain,
G

Man, nor time can erase

I move hard to the left and
C
G
C

I strike to the face
G
C
G

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