Working On The Highway Tab by Bruce Springsteen

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Intro 1

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Friday

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Verse 1
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 (C major) night's pay night,
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guys  (F major) fresh out of  (C major) work
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 (F major)     (C major)  (F major)     (C major) Talking
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about the weekend,
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 (G major) scrubbing off the  (C major) dirt
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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Some  (C major) heading home to their families,
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some  (F major) looking to get  (C major) hurt
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Some  (C major) going down to Stovell
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wearing  (G major) trouble on their  (C major) shirts
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 

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Verse 2
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I  (C major) work for the county out on  (F major) ninety  (C major) five
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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All  (C major) day I hold a red flag
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and watch the  (G major) traffic pass me  (C major) by
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In  (C major) my head I keep a picture
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of a  (F major) pretty little  (C major) miss
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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 (C major) Someday, mister, I'm gonna
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 (G major) lead a better  (C major) life than this

Chorus 1
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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laying  (G major) down the black (C major) top
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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all  (G major) day long I don't  (C major) stop
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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blasting  (G major) through the bed (C major) rock
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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working  (G major) on the high (C major) way

Interlude 1

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I met

Verse 3
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 (C major) her at a dance down  (F major) at the union  (C major) hall
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She  (C major) was standing with her brothers,
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back  (G major) up against the  (C major) wall
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Some (C major) times we'd go walking down
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the  (F major) Union  (C major) tracks
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One  (C major) day I looked straight at her
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and she  (G major) looked straight  (C major) back

Chorus 2
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So I'm  (F major) working on the highway,
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laying  (G major) down the black (C major) top
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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all  (G major) day long I don't  (C major) stop
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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blasting  (G major) through the bed (C major) rock
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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working  (G major) on the high (C major) way

Interlude 2

I saved

Bridge 1
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 (A minor) up my money and I  (C major) put it all away
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I  (A minor) went to see her daddy
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but we  (C major) didn't have much to say
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 (A minor) "Son, can't you see that she's  (C major) just a little girl
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 (F major) She don't know nothing
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about this  (G major) cruel, cruel world"

Verse 4
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We lit  (C major) out down to Florida,
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we  (F major) got along all  (C major) right
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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One  (C major) day her brothers came and got her
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And they  (G major) took me in a  (C major) black-and-white
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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The  (C major) prosecutor kept the promise
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that he  (F major) made on that  (C major) day
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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And  (C major) the judge got mad
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and he  (G major) put me straight a (C major) way
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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I  (C major) wake up every morning
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to the  (F major) work bell  (C major) clang
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 (F major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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Me  (C major) and the warden go swinging on the
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Charlotte County road  (C7) gang

Chorus 3
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I'm  (F major) working on the highway,
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laying  (G major) down the black (C major) top
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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all  (G major) day long I don't  (C major) stop
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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blasting  (G major) through the bed (C major) rock
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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working  (G major) on the high (C major) way

Chorus 4
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I'm  (F major) working on the highway,
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laying  (G major) down the black (C major) top
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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all  (G major) day long I don't  (C major) stop
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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blasting  (G major) through the bed (C major) rock
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 (F major) Working on the highway,
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working  (G major) on the high (C major) way

Outro 1
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