Child Bride by Bruce Springsteen
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse 
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
Verse 
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
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G D A
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Verse  
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
Verse
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"
Verse
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
Verse
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
Verse
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
Outro 
D G A (till fade)