Song For Orphans

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Song For Orphans-Bruce Springsteen
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Tabbed by:Nick V.
E-mail:BlindTerry333@gmail.com
Tuning:EADGBE
Not the “Letter To You” version so don’t rate
it based off the 2020 version!
This is the version from the WBCN performance on 1/6/73.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI90aRt_v44
Am Am/G F
The multitude assembled and tried to make the noise
Am Am/G F
Them blank blind poet generals and restless loud white boys
Am Am/G F
But time grew thin and the axis was left somehow incomplete
C G Am Am/G F
Where instead of child lions, they found agein' junkie sheep
Am Am/G F
And how many wasted have I seen signed "Hollywood or bust"
Am Am/G F
Oh left to ride them ever ghostly Arizona gusts
Am Am/G F
Cheerleader tramps and kids with big amps soundin' helpless in the void
C G Am Am/G F F
Oh high society vamps and ex-heavyweight champs mistakin' soot for soil
C G F C G F
Oh so break me now big Mama as Old Faithful breaks the day
C G F C G
Believe me my good Linda, help is on the way
Am Am/G F
The confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay
Am Am/G Dm Em F
The axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?
Am Am/G F
Am Am/G F
Well the doorstep blanket weaver, Madonna she pushes bells
Am Am/G F
From house to house to house I see her givin' last kisses and wishin' wells
Am Am/G F
To every gypsy mystic and all-star that the kids might find a place
C G Am Am/G F
Who've lost for ever true fathers on their time travels out in space
Am Am/G F
Oh and the sons they search for fathers, but the fathers are all gone
Am Am/G F
The lost souls search for saviours, but saviours don't last long
Am Am/G F
Them aimless questless renegade brats who live their lives in songs
C G Am Am/G F
They run the length of a candle, and in a goodnight whisper and a puff they're gone
C G F C G F
Oh so break me now big Mama as Old Faithful breaks the day
C G F C G
Believe me my good Linda, help is on the way
Am Am/G F
The confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay
Am Am/G Dm Em F
The axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?
Am Am/G F
Well now the missions are filled with hermits and they're all lookin' for a friend
Am Am/G F
And the terraces are filled with cat-men lookin' for a way in
Am Am/G Dm Am
These orphans lost up on silver mountains, jumped, jumped in alleyways
Am Am/G Dm Am Am/G
They wait for that old tramp Dog Man Moses, he takes in all the strays
Am Am/G F
And he told me, "don't grow on empty legends or lonely cradle songs
Am Am/G F
Because Billy the Kid was just a bowery boy who made a living twirlin' his guns
Am Am/G F
And the night she's long, she's lanky, and she speaks in a mother tongue"
Am Am/G Dm Em F
And he lullabied the refugees with an amplifier's hum
C G F C G F
Oh we could break us now big Mama as Old Faithful she breaks the day
C G F C G
Leave me, now, good Linda, the aurora will shine your way
Am Am/G F
The confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay
Am Am/G Dm Em F
The axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?
Am Am/G F
The confederacy's in my name now, them hounds are held at bay
Am Am/G Dm Em F
The axis needs a stronger arm, do you feel your mus-cle play?
Questions, comments, insults...BlindTerry333

Song For Orphans chords and lyrics

Free chords for Song For Orphans by Bruce Springsteen. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

Tuning:EADGBE
Not the “Letter To You” version so don’t rate
it based off the 2020 version!
This is the version from the WBCN performance on 1/6/73. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI90aRt_v44
Am Am/G F
Questions, comments, insults...BlindTerry333

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