The Breakmen – Racing In The Street chords

Racing in the Street
by Bruce Springsteen
Arrangement: The Breakmen

Capo on 2.  This is a really folky arrangement and very easy to play.  

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CI got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
       FFuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
      GShe's waiting tonight down in the parking lot
            F            C   Outside the Seven-Eleven store
CMe and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch
       FAnd he rides with me from town to town
        GWe only run for the money, got no strings attached
            F              CWe shut 'em up and then we shut 'em down

CWe take all the action we can meet
       FAnd we cover all the northeast states
         GWhen the strip shuts down we run 'em in the street
         F                 C      From the fire roads to the interstate

Chorus
C        Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
        FI wanna blow 'em off in my first heat
GSummer's here and the time is right
    F             CFor racin' in the street

  C I met her on the strip three years ago
     FIn a Camaro with this dude from L.A.
      GWell, I blew that Camaro off my back,
    F                        C and I drove that little girl away,
  
But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes
        FAnd she cries herself to sleep at night
    G She sits on the porch of her Daddy's house
           F                     CShe sighs, "Baby did you make it all right,"

Chorus
CTonight, tonight the strip's just right
        FI wanna blow 'em off in my first heat
GSummer's here and the time is right
    F             CFor racin' in the street 

CSome guys they just give up living
                F         And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
     GSome guys get off work, go home and wash up,
       F             CAnd go racin' in the street.

CFor all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels,
F               Rumbling through this promised land
           GTonight my baby and me, we're gonna ride to the sea
    F                       CAnd wash these sins off our hands.

Chorus
CTonight, tonight the strip's just right
        FI wanna blow 'em off in my first heat
GSummer's here and the time is right
    F             CFor racin' in the street