{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1496010,"song":"Song For Orphans","artist":"Bruce Springsteen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1496010-song-for-orphans-chords-by-bruce-springsteen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1496010?type=chord","rating":4.30824,"votes":7,"content":"[tab]------------------------------------------------------\r\n          Song For Orphans-Bruce Springsteen\r\n------------------------------------------------------\r\nTabbed by:Nick V.\r\nE-mail:BlindTerry333@gmail.com[/tab]\r\n\r\nTuning:EADGBE\r\n\r\nNot the “Letter To You” version so don’t rate\r\nit based off the 2020 version!\r\n \r\nThis is the version from the WBCN performance on 1/6/73. \r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI90aRt_v44\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]Am/G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe multitude assembled and tried to make the noise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]Am/G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThem blank blind poet generals and restless loud white boys[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Am/G[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut time grew thin and the axis was left somehow incomplete [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]Am/G[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere instead of child lions, they found agein' junkie sheep[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]Am/G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd how many wasted have I seen signed \"Hollywood or bust\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]Am/G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOh left to ride them ever ghostly Arizona gusts[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Am/G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nCheerleader tramps and kids with big amps soundin' helpless in the void[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]Am/G[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOh high society vamps and ex-heavyweight champs mistakin' soot for soil[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]            \r\nOh so break me now big Mama as Old Faithful breaks the day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              \r\nBelieve me my good Linda, help is on the way[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]Am/G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]                [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am/G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]Am/G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWell the doorstep blanket weaver, Madonna she pushes bells[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]Am/G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFrom house to house to house I see her givin' last kisses and wishin' wells[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Am/G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo every gypsy mystic and all-star that the kids might find a place[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Am/G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWho've lost for ever true fathers on their time travels out in space[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Am/G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOh and the sons they search for fathers, but the fathers are all gone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Am/G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe lost souls search for saviours, but saviours don't last long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Am/G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThem aimless questless renegade brats who live their lives in songs[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]Am/G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey run the length of a candle, and in a goodnight whisper and a puff they're gone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]            \r\nOh so break me now big Mama as Old Faithful breaks the day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]              \r\nBelieve me my good Linda, help is on the way[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]Am/G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWell now the missions are filled with hermits and they're all lookin' for a friend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the terraces are filled with cat-men lookin' for a way in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThese orphans lost up on silver mountains, jumped, jumped in alleyways[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]                        [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]Am/G[/ch]\r\nThey wait for that old tramp Dog Man Moses, he takes in all the strays[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd he told me, \"don't grow on empty legends or lonely cradle songs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBecause Billy the Kid was just a bowery boy who made a living twirlin' his guns[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Am/G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the night she's long, she's lanky, and she speaks in a mother tongue\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd he lullabied the refugees with an amplifier's hum[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]            \r\nOh we could break us now big Mama as Old Faithful she breaks the day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]              \r\nLeave me, now, good Linda, the aurora will shine your way[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Am/G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Am/G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Am/G[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nQuestions, comments, insults...BlindTerry333","plain_text":"Tuning:EADGBE\n\nNot the “Letter To You” version so don’t rate\nit based off the 2020 version!\n \nThis is the version from the WBCN performance on 1/6/73. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI90aRt_v44\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAm Am/G F\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions, comments, insults...BlindTerry333","chords":["E","Am","Am/G","F","C","G","Dm","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am/G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,0,2,2,1,0],"frets":[3,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}