E Street Shuffle Chords - Bruce Springsteen






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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:50:34 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers 
Subject: ./s/springsteen_bruce/e_street_shuffle.crd

                         "The E Street Shuffle"
                          (Bruce Springsteen)

Intro [chords implied by horns]:

Am           Em           Dm    G      C   [guitar and clavinet enter]
/  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /

Verse 1:

  C
Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot
All the little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a
    double shot
     F7
The schoolboy bops pull out all the stops on a Friday night
     C
The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and
    everything's all right
      G7
Them kids down there are either dancin' or hooked up in a scuffle
            Am                          F7
Dressed in snakeskin suits backed with Detroit muscle
        Ab9       G9        C
They're doin' the E Street Shuffle

Verse 2:

Now those E Street brats in twilight dual flashlight phantoms in
    full star stream
Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls playing sweet
    sixteen
The newsboys say the heat's been bad since Power 13 gave a trooper
    all he had in a summer scuffle
And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner keepin' those
    crazy boys out of trouble
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains
She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane
She drives all them local boys insane
Yes, she does

Bridge:

                    Am G  Am     G  Am   Dm      Em           Am
Little Angel says, "Oh oh oh (oh oh oh),    everybody form a line
Am G  Am     G  Am   Dm      Em          Am
Oh oh oh (oh oh oh),    everybody form a line"
E7#9      Dm    G
/ /  / /  /     /

Verse 3:

Well the sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome
    and hot
All them little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a
    double shot
Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's, it's a club where all the riot
    squad goes when they're cashin' in for a cheap hustle
But them boys are still on the corner loose and doin' that lazy
    E Street Shuffle
As them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams Little Angel
    picks up Power and he slips on his jeans
And they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are there

Instrumental break: (3:05):

bass (doubled w/guitar):

[N.C.]                Ab7
 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-345----3--------|
------------3----|
-----------------|
-----------------|

guitar solo [3X]:

Bbm7              Ebm7
 / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

[drum break]

Bbm7                            [N.C.]
 / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Coda (3:38):

guitar & congas [clavinet enters 3rd bar]:

 Bbm9              Ebm7
  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /
xx6668            xx8879

[bass enters; drums enter 4th bar]

Bbm7sus4           Ebm9
  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /
    1 1             1111
 xx8091           xx1113

[horns enter]

Bbm7              Ebm7               [repeat; fade 6th time]
 / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers