Bobby Jean

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Bobby Jean chords
Bruce Springsteen 1984 *
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jean
A C#mD B7
2x
A
Well, I came by your house the other day,
C#m
Your mother said you went away
D
She said there was nothing that I could have done,
B7
There was nothing nobody could say
A
Me and you we've known each other,
C#m
Ever since we were sixteen
D
I wished I would have known, I wished I could've called you,
B7 A C#m D B7
Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean
A
Now you hung with me when all the others,
C#m
Turned away, turned up their nose
D
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands
B7
We liked the same clothes
A
We told each other that we were the wildest,
C#m
The wildest things we'd ever seen
D
Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you,
B7 A C#m D B7
Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean
D
Now we went walking in the rain,
F#m
Talking about the pain that from the world we hid
D A E
Now there aint nobody, no where no how, gonna ever understand me the way you did
A
Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere,
C#m
In some bus or train traveling along
D
In some motel room you'll hear a radio playing,
B7
And you'll hear me sing this song
A
Well, if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you,
C#m
And all the miles in between
D
And I'm just calling one last time,
B7
Not to change your mind,
D E A
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck, goodbye Bobby Jean
A C#mD B7
3x
* Alternate:
Capo II
A G
=
C#mBm
=
D C
=
B7 A7
=
F#mEm
=
E D
=
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Bobby Jean chords
Bruce Springsteen  1984  *
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jean
A  C#m  D  B7 2x
A  C#m  D  B7 3x
* Alternate:
Capo II
A   = G
C#m = Bm
D   = C
B7  = A7
F#m = Em
E   = D
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Bobby Jean Chords by Bruce Springsteen

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