The Line

The Line easy guitar chords by Bruce Springsteen

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  • Verse 1
    I got 
    my 
    discharge 

    from 
    Fort 
    Irwin 

    Took a 
    place 
    on 
    the San 
    Diego 
    county 
    line 

    Felt 
    funny 
    bein' 
    a civilian 
    again 

    It'd 
    been 
    some 
    time 

    My wife 
    had died 
    a year 
    ago 

    I was 
    still 
    tryin' 
    to find 

    my 
    way 
    back 
    whole 

    Went 
    to 
    work 
    for 
    the 
    INS 
    on 

    the line 

    With the Californi
    Border 
    Patrol 

    Verse 2

    Bobby 
    Ramirez 
    was a 
    ten- 

    year 
    veteran 

    We became 
    friends 

    His 
    family 
    was 
    from 
    Guanajuato 

    So the 
    job 
    it 
    was 
    different 
    for 
    him 

    He 
    said' "They 
    risk 
    death 
    in 
    the 

    deserts 
    and 
    mountains" 

    Pay all 
    they got 
    to 
    the 
    smugglers 
    rings, 

    We send 
    'em 
    home 
    and they 

    come 
    right 
    back 
    again 

    Carl, 
    hunger 
    is 
    a powerful 
    thing." 

    Verse 3

    Well I 
    was 
    good 
    at doin' 

    what 
    was told 

    Kept 
    my 
    uniform 
    pressed 
    and 
    clean 

    At night 
    chased 
    their 
    shad
    ows 

    Through 
    the 
    arroyos 
    and 
    ravines 

    Verse 4
    Drug 
    runners, 

    farmers 
    with their 
    families, 

    Young 
    women 
    with 
    little 

    children 
    by 
    their 
    sides 

    Come 
    night 
    we'd 
    wait 

    out 
    in 
    the 
    canyon

    And 
    try 
    to 
    keep 
    'em 
    from 

    crossin' 
    the line 

    Verse 5
    Well the first 
    time 
    that 
    saw 
    her 

    She was 
    in 
    the 
    holdin' 
    pen 

    Our 
    eyes 
    met 
    and 
    she 
    looked 
    away 

    Then 
    she 
    looked 
    back 
    again 

    Her 
    hair 
    was 
    black 
    as 
    coal 

    Her eyes 
    reminded 
    me 

    of 
    what 
    I'd 
    lost 

    She 
    had 
    young 
    child 
    cryin' 
    in 
    her 
    arms 

    And 
    I asked, 
    "Senora, 

    is 
    there 
    anything 
    can 
    do" 

    Verse 6
    There's 
    bar 
    in 
    Tijuana 

    Where 
    me and 
    Bobby 

    drink 
    alongside 

    The same 
    people 
    we'd 

    sent 
    back 
    the day 
    before 

    We 
    met 
    there 
    she 
    said 

    her name 
    was Louisa 

    She 
    was from 
    sonora 
    and 
    had just 

    come 
    north 

    We danced 
    and I 
    held 
    her in 
    my 
    arm

    And 
    knew 
    what 
    would 
    do 

    She 
    said 
    she had 
    some family 

    in 
    Madera 
    county 

    If she, 
    her child 
    and her young

    er brother 
    could 
    just 
    get through 

    Verse 7

    At 
    night 
    they come 
    across 

    the levy 

    In the search
    lights 
    dusty 
    glow 

    We'd 
    rush 
    'em 
    in our 
    Bron
    cos 

    And 
    force 
    'em back 
    down 

    into 
    the river 
    be
    low 

    She 
    climbed 
    into 
    my 
    truck 

    She 
    leaned 
    to
    wards 
    me 
    and 
    we 
    kissed 

    As 
    we drove 
    her 
    brothers 

    shirt 
    slipped 
    open 

    And I saw 
    the 
    tape 
    across 
    his 
    chest 

    Verse 8

    We 
    were just 
    about 
    on 
    the high
    way 

    When 
    Bobby's 
    jeep 
    come 

    up 
    in 
    the dust 
    on 
    my 
    right 

    pulled 
    over 
    and 
    let 
    my 

    en
    gine 
    run 

    And stepped 
    out 
    into 
    his 
    lights 

    I felt 
    myself 
    movin' 

    Felt 
    my 
    gun 
    restin' 

    'neath 
    my 
    hand 

    We stood 
    there 
    starin' 
    at 
    each 
    other 

    As off 
    through 
    the 
    arroyo 
    she 
    ran 

    Verse 9

    Bobby 
    Ramirez 
    he never 
    said 
    nothin' 

    Six 
    months 
    later 
    left 
    the 
    line 

    I drif
    ted 
    to the 
    central 
    val
    ley 

    And took what 
    work 
    I could 
    find 

    At night 
    searched 
    the 
    local 

    bars 

    And the migrant 
    towns 

    Lookin' 
    for my 
    Louisa 

    With 
    the 
    black 
    hair 
    fall
    in' 

    Outro 1
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