Tab Realm

TAB by Song : 17894
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Tab List Area
1 Pages 1 Results

Working On The Highway by Bruce Springsteen





     Working On The Highway







Chords used in this song : 
C

e ---|---|---|---|---|
B -x-|---|---|---|---|
G ---|---|---|---|---|
D ---|-x-|---|---|---|
A ---|---|-x-|---|---|
E ---|---|-o-|---|---| F

e -x-|---|---|---|---|
B -x-|---|---|---|---|
G ---|-x-|---|---|---|
D ---|---|-x-|---|---|
A ---|---|-x-|---|---|
E -x-|---|---|---|---| G

e ---|---|-x-|---|---|
B ---|---|---|---|---|
G ---|---|---|---|---|
D ---|---|---|---|---|
A ---|-x-|---|---|---|
E ---|---|-x-|---|---| Am

e ---|---|---|---|---|
B -x-|---|---|---|---|
G ---|-x-|---|---|---|
D ---|-x-|---|---|---|
A ---|---|---|---|---|
E ---|---|---|---|---| 





| C | C | C | C |

C                             F             C   | F C | F
Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
   C                         G                C  | F C | F
Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt
      C                                     F             C  | F C | F
Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt
     C                             G                 C      | F C | F
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
  C                         F C | F C | F
I work for the county out on 95
  C                                      G               C | F C | F
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
   C                             G              C  | F C | F
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
C                                G                C
Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this

F                        G                   C
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  F                         G                 C
Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  F                         G                  C
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock  |          2x           |
   F                         G              C        | F C | F C | F C | G C |
Working on the highway, working on the highway

  C                           F         C  | F C | F
I met her at a dance down at the union hall
 C                                         G             C  | F C | F
She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
  C                          F               C | F C | F
Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
  C                                   G                   C  | F C | F
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back

F                        G                   C
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  F                         G                 C
Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  F                         G                  C
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock  |          2x           |
   F                         G              C        | F C | F C | F C | G C |
Working on the highway, working on the highway

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


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

F                        G                   C
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  F                         G                 C
Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  F                         G                  C
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock  |          2x           |
   F                         G              C        | F C | F C | F C | G C |
Working on the highway, working on the highway

F                        G                   C
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  F                         G                 C
Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  F                         G                  C
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
   F                         G              C
Working on the highway, working on the highway

| F C | F C | F C | G C |
                   Ooooh
| F C | F C | F C | G C |
                   Ooooh
| F C | F C | F C | G C |
| F C | F C | F C | G C |



------------------