The Line chords by Bruce Springsteen

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Verse 1
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 (C major)  (F major)  (C major) I got my discharge
from Fort Irwin
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Took a  (F major) place on the San Diego county  (C major) line
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Felt  (F major) funny bein' a civilian  (C major) again
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It'd been some  (G major) time
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My wife  (C major) had died a year ago
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I was still tryin'  (F major) to find
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my way back whole  (C major) 
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Went  (F major) to work for the INS on
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 (C major) the line
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With the Californi (F major) a   (G major) Border  (C major) Patrol

Verse 2
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 (C major) 
Bobby Ramirez was a ten-
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year veteran  (F major) 
We became friends
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 (C major)  (F major) His family was from Guanajuato  (C major) 
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So the job it was different  (G major) for him
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He said' "They risk  (C major) death in the
deserts and mountains"
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Pay all  (F major) they got to the smugglers rings,
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 (C major) We send 'em  (F major) home and they
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come right back again  (C major) 
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 (G major) Carl, hunger is a powerful thing."
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 (C major) 

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Verse 3

Well I was good at doin'

what I was told

Kept my uniform pressed and clean

At night I chased their shadows

Through the arroyos and ravines

Verse 4
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Drug  (C major) runners,
farmers with their families,
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Young women with  (F major) little
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children by their sides  (C major) 
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Come night we'd  (F major) wait
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out in the canyon (C major) s
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And try to keep  (G major) 'em from  (E minor) 
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crossin'  (G major)  (C major) the line

Verse 5
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Well the first  (C major) time that I saw her
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She was  (F major) in the holdin' pen  (C major) 
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Our  (F major) eyes met and she looked  (C major) away
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Then she looked back again  (G major) 
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Her hair  (C major) was black as coal
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Her eyes reminded  (F major) me
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of what I'd lost  (C major) 
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She had a  (F major) young child cryin' in her  (C major) arms
And I asked, "Senora,
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 (G major) is there anything I can  (C major) do"

Verse 6
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There's a  (F major) bar in  (C major) Tijuana
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Where  (F major) me and Bobby
drink alongside
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The same  (C major) people we'd
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 (G major) sent back the day before
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 (C major) We met  (F major) there she  (A minor) said
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her name was Louisa  (F major) 
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She was from  (C major) sonora and had just
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come  (G major) north
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We danced  (A minor) and I held her in my arm (F major) s
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And I  (C major) knew what  (F major) I would do  (C major) 
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She said she had some family  (F major) 
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in Madera county  (C major) 
If she, her child and her young
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 (G major) er brother could just get through
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 (C major) 

Verse 7
At night they come across
the levy
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In the search (F major) lights dusty glow  (C major) 
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We'd  (F major) rush 'em in our Bron (C major) cos
And force 'em back down
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into the river below  (G major) 
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She climbed  (C major) into my truck
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She leaned to (F major) wards me and we kissed  (C major) 
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As we drove  (F major) her brothers
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shirt slipped open  (C major) 
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And I saw the  (G major) tape across his chest
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 (C major) 

Verse 8
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We were just  (A minor) about on the high (F major) way
When Bobby's jeep come
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 (C major) up in the dust  (G major) on my  (C major) right
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I  (A minor) pulled over and let my
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engine  (F major) run
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And stepped  (C major) out into his  (G major) lights  (A minor) 
I felt myself movin'
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 (F major) Felt my gun  (C major) restin'  (G major) 
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'neath my  (C major) hand
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We stood  (F major) there starin' at each other  (C major) 
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As off  (G major) through the arroyo she ran  (C major) 

Verse 9
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 (C major) Bobby Ramirez he never said nothin'
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Six  (F major) months later I left the line  (C major) 
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I drif (F major) ted to the central  (C major) valley
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And took what work I could  (G major) find
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At night I  (C major) searched the local
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bars  (F major) 
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And the migrant  (C major) towns
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 (F major) Lookin' for my Louisa
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 (C major) With the  (G major) black hair  (C major) fallin'