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Backstreets Tabs

(ver. 1)
Bruce Springsteen
 Taken from greasylake.org
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       G                         Em
One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
            G                           Em
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
          G                            Em
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
                  D                                C              D
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
    G          C               G          C
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
       G                 Am7          G    Em
With a love so hard and filled with defeat  
                 C                          |           2x             |
Running for our lives at night on them      G             Em
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                                       backstreets

     G                          Em
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
 G                                          Em
Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
  D                  C
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
        Am                               C                  D
In the deep heart of the night we could loose from everything
       G         C                G          C
to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
          G        C         Am   G Em
Terry you swore we'd live forever
C                               |           2x             |
Taking it on them backstreets   G             Em
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                              together
A                       F#m     
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag 
      A                                    F#m
Where dancers scr*ped the tears up off the streets dressed down in rags 
   A                                F#m
Running into the darkness some hurt bad some really dying
   E                                            D
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
                                                    E
Blame it on the lies that killed us blame it on the truth that ran us down 
        A                                 D
You can blame it all on me Terry it don't matter to me now
                                             E
When the breakdown hit at midnight there was nothing left to say
      A               E                       F#m  | B | D G D7 G |
But I hated him and I hated you when you went away

D7    G    D7          G                      Em                    G
----------------------|-7--------------------|---------------------|--7------8-7------|
-----------------8-10-|---10-8-10-8-1010-|----10-8-----10-8-|
-----------/7>9-------|------------------9<7-|-9/---9/vvv---9------|------------------|
----------------------|----------------------|--b----b----9--------|------------------|
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Em                 G                        Em                    G
------------------|-7/8\7-------8<7--------|---------------------|-12----19/--17/--15-|
----8-----------8-|--b-rb--10-8-----10-8---|----8----------12-15-|----15---b----b-----|
-9/---9/vvv-7-9---|----------------------7-|-9/---9/vvv-12-------|--------------------|
--b----b----------|------------------------|--b----b-------------|--------------------|
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C           D7
-12---b---------------|
----15/17-15/17\17/17-|
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 G                                      Em
Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest
      G                             Em
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
  D                            C
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
          Am                                C                D
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
     Em                                Bm
And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
 C                                  D7sus
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
   G          C               G          C
To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
           G        C        G Em      C                     G  | C | G |
Where we swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
C
Hiding on the

|                  8x                               |
G                          C             
backstreets, hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the

              Am                         F
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
         D7                                             G
It’s allright we’ll go hiding on the backstreets tonight
              C
Hiding on the backstreets

|                  3x                               |
              G                          C
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

| D | C Bm Am  G Am Bm | C | D | G | C | C | D | G | D | C Bm | Am  D7 | G |

  G  Em D  C  D7 Am7 Am A  F#m E  B  Bm D7sus 
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--0--0--3--1--1--1--1---2--2--0---4--3--1----
--0--0--2--0--2--0--2---2--2--1---4--4--2----
--0--2--0--2--0--2--2---2--4--2---4--4--0----
--2--2-----3-----0--0---0--4--2---2--2-------
--3--0---------------------2--0--------------

b....bend
rb...release bend
/....slide up
\....slide down
>....hammer
<....pull
vvv..vibrato
            
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