{"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":779066,"song":"Black Cowboys","artist":"Bruce Springsteen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/779066-black-cowboys-chords-by-bruce-springsteen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/779066?type=chord","rating":4.93096,"votes":18,"content":"BLACK COWBOYS\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]G[/ch])\r\nRainey Williams playground was the Mott Haven streets[/tab]\r\n[tab]            ([ch]C[/ch])                      ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nWhere he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                             ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nNames and photos of young black faces[/tab]\r\n[tab]                ([ch]D[/ch])                      ([ch]G[/ch])   \r\nWhose death and blood consecrated these places[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nRaineys mother said Rainey stay at my side[/tab]\r\n[tab]         ([ch]C[/ch])                       ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nFor you are my blessing, you are my pride[/tab]\r\n[tab]        ([ch]C[/ch])                           ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nIts your love here that keeps my soul alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]             ([ch]D[/ch])                              ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nI want you to come home from school and stay inside[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nRainey'd do his work and put his books away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  ([ch]C[/ch])                           ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThere was a channel showed a Western movie everyday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    ([ch]C[/ch])                                      ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nLynette brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range[/tab]\r\n[tab]            ([ch]D[/ch])                                  ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThe Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                 ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nSummer come and the days grew long[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                            ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nRainey always had his mother's smile to depend on[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                      ([ch]G[/ch]) \r\nAlong the street of stray bullets he made his way[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                   ([ch]G[/ch])                   ([ch]C[/ch])  ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nTo the warmth of her arms at the end of each day[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]G[/ch])                               \r\nCome the fall, the rain flooded these homes[/tab]\r\n[tab]       ([ch]C[/ch])                    ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nHere in Ezekiel's valley of dry bones[/tab]\r\n[tab]  ([ch]C[/ch])                            ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nIt fell hard and dark to the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]D[/ch])                  ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nIt fell without a sound[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]G[/ch])                                                 \r\nLynette took up with a man whose business was the boulevard[/tab]\r\n[tab]     ([ch]C[/ch])                                            ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nWhose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard[/tab]\r\n[tab]      ([ch]C[/ch])                                  ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nIn the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets he kept[/tab]\r\n[tab]      ([ch]D[/ch])                                          ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nIn the day, behind drawn curtains in Lynette's bedroom he slept[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                     ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThen she got lost in the days[/tab]\r\n[tab] ([ch]C[/ch])                     ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThe smile Raney depended on dusted away[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                          ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThe arms that held him were no more his home[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]D[/ch])                                        ([ch]G[/ch])                   ([ch]C[/ch])\r\nHe lay at night his head pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her [/tab]\r\n[tab]  ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nbones[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]G[/ch])    \r\nIn the kitchen Rainey slipped his hand between the pipes[/tab]\r\n[tab]         ([ch]C[/ch])                                           \r\nFrom a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills [/tab]\r\n[tab]       ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nand stuck it in his coat side[/tab]\r\n[tab]([ch]C[/ch])                       ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nStood in the dark at his mother's bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]         ([ch]D[/ch])                     ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nBrushed her hair and kissed her eyes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]([ch]G[/ch])                                                \r\nIn the twilight Rainey walked to the station on streets of stone[/tab]\r\n[tab]              ([ch]C[/ch])                        ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThrough Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on[/tab]\r\n[tab]          ([ch]C[/ch])                              ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThrough the small towns of Indiana the big train crept[/tab]\r\n[tab]       ([ch]D[/ch])                                 ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nAs he lay his head back on the seat and slept[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 ([ch]G[/ch])                     \r\nHe awoke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green[/tab]\r\n[tab]          ([ch]C[/ch])                             ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nCorn and cotton and endless nothin' in between[/tab]\r\n[tab]               ([ch]C[/ch])                             ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nOver the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]         ([ch]D[/ch])                                 ([ch]G[/ch])\r\nThe moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWell thats the song the way i play it.\r\nim pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really\r\nlike your feedback; cold-chisel-man@hotmail.com","plain_text":"BLACK COWBOYS\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWell thats the song the way i play it.\nim pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really\nlike your feedback; cold-chisel-man@hotmail.com","chords":["G","C","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}