Child Bride

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                             Child Bride-Bruce Springsteen
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Tabbed by:Nick V.

Tuning:EADGBE


A "Nebraska" outtake that was turned into "Working on the Highway" on the "Born in the U.S.A." 
album


Play the D Dsus2 D progression as..
E|-2--2---0-0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-3--3---3-3---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-2--2---2-2---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-0--0---0-0---------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|-x--x---x-x---------------------------------------------------------------------| 

D                 G      A
Friday night's pay night
                     D  Dsus2 D
Guy's fresh out of work
D                 G        A
Talking about the weekend
                         D  Dsus2 D
Tryin' to scrub off the dirt
D                            G      A
Some heading home to their families
                                   D  Dsus2 D
Some wearing trouble on their shirts
D                         G      A
Some driving down to Stovall
                     D  Dsus2 D
Just looking to get hurt

D                 G      A     D  Dsus2 D
I work for the county out on 95
D                 G       A
Just holdin' that red flag
                             D  Dsus2 D
Watchin' the traffic pass me by
D                 G      A
All day I keep a picture
                     D  Dsus2 D
Of my baby in my head
D                 G          A
At night I dream I'm with her
                      D  Dsus2 D
Laying in my bunkhouse bed

G D A

D                 G       A                   D  Dsus2 D
Seen her at the canteen down at the Legion hall
D                       G      A
She came in with her brothers
                              D  Dsus2 D
Standin' back up against the wall
D                 G        A                  D  Dsus2 D
Me and her we'd go walking down by the union tracks
D                 G            A                   D  Dsus2 D
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back

D                 G      A             D  Dsus2 D
Grey clouds stretch across the white moon
D                 G                A
Sitting in the backyard in my old car
                D  Dsus2 D
We hum out of tune
D                 G        A                D  Dsus2 D
Well I saved up my money and I put it all away
D                 G        A                    D  Dsus2 D
I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
D                 G             A                  D  Dsus2 D
Said "Now son can't you see that she's just a little girl
D                 G              A                D  Dsus2 D
Who don't know nothing 'bout the meanness in this world"

D                 G      A                   D  Dsus2 D
Took off down to Florida we got along all right
D                       G      A
One day her brothers came and got her
                                   D  Dsus2 D
And they took me in a black and white
D                        G
The prosecutor kept the promise
A                 D  Dsus2 D
That he made on that day
D                       G        A
She was sad and the judge was mad
                        D  Dsus2 D
And he put me straight away

Bridge

G                     A
Well they said she was too young
G                       A
She was no younger than I've been
G                       A
When she put her arms around me
                     D  Dsus2 D
And the night closed in

D                 G      A                   D  Dsus2 D
Well sometimes I dream of getting out of here
D                 G            A
Heading down towards them old tracks
D                         G         A
I swore I'd come and get her, but I know
                    D  Dsus2 D
I ain't never going back

D                    G      A
There's nights I can't sleep
                      D  Dsus2 D
No matter how hard I try
D             G      A                    D  Dsus2 D
So from my window I watch the moonlight
                    D  Dsus2 D
Fall on the far hillside
D                         G
I imagine I put on my jacket
A                             D  Dsus2 D
and go down to this little roadside bar
D                       G          A
Pick a stranger and spin around the dance floor
               D  Dsus2 D
To a Mexican guitar