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Bruce Springsteen
"The Big Muddy"
From "Lucky Town" (1992)
G   Dadd2Dadd
e|-0---0---0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3---3---3-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-0---0---0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0---5---4-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-0---0---5-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-5---0---0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
[Intro]
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------0-----------0---------0------------------------------------------|
D|----4---------0----------0------------4-------4----------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0-----0---------0-----------0------0----0--0---0--------------------------|
[Verse]
DaddBilly had a mistress down on A and 12th
DaddShe was that little something that he did for himself
His Dadd2own little secret didn't hurt nobody
Come the Gafternoon he'd take her wadin'
[Chorus]
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
GDadd
You start out standing but end up crawlin' sonny
[Verse]
DaddGot in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine
DaddThis old friend he had a figure in mind
It was Dadd2nothing illegal just a little bit funnDaddy
He said, "C'mon don't tell Gme that the rich don't know sonny
Sooner or later it ll comes down to money."
[Chorus]
DaddAnd you're waist deep in the big muddy
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
GDadd
You start on higher ground but end up crawlin' sonny
[Bridge]
Well I Ghad a friend sid, "You watch what you do
Poison snake bites you and you're Daddpoison too"
[Verse]
DaddHow beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing
DaddBut you and I we're messier things
There ain't Dadd2no one leavin' this world buddy
Without their Gshirttail dirty
Or their hands bloody
[Chorus]
DaddAnd you're waist deep in the big muddy
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
GDadd
You start on higher ground but end up crawlin' sonny
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
GDadd
You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin' sonny
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
DaddWaist deep in the big muddy
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