Bruce Springsteen : Devils And Dust

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

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I got my finger on the trigger, but I don't know who to trust

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I look into your eyes there's just devils and dust

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We're a long, long way from home Bobbie, home's a long, long way from us

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Feel the dirty winds blowin' devils and dust

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Got God on my side, I'm just trying to survive

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But if what you do to survive kills the things you love

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Fear is a powerful thing, turns your heart black you can trust

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Take your God filled soul, fill it with devils and dust Well I dreamed of you last night in a field of blood and stone Blood began to dry, smell began to rise Well I dreamed of you last night in a field of mud and bone Your blood began to dry, smell began to rise Got God on our side, we're just trying to survive But if what you do to survive kills the things you love Fear's a powerful thing, turn your heart black you can trust Take your God filled soul, fill it with Devils and dust Take your God fearin' soul, fill it with devils and dust Now every woman and every man, they want to take a righteous stand Find the love with God wills, the faith that he commands I've got my finger on the trigger, tonight faith just ain't enough When I look inside my heart, there's just devils and dust But I've got God on my side and I'm just trying to survive But if what you do to survive kills the things you love Fear is a dangerous thing, turns your heart black you can trust Take your God filled soul, fill it with devils and dust It'll take your God fearin' soul, fill it with devils and dust

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Yeah, I know what it's like to fail, babe With the whole world lookin' on I know what it's like to have soared And come crashin' like a drunk on a barroom floor

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Now You got no reason to trust me My confidence is a little rusty

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But if You don't feel like bein' alone

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Baby I could walk you all the way home

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Well now our old fears and failures Oh, baby, they do linger Like the shadow of that ring That was on your finger

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Those days they've come and gone

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Baby I could walk you all the way home

Harp solo over verse chords

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Love leaves nothin' but shadows and vapor

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We go on, as is our sad nature

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Now it's some old Stones song the band is trashin'

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But if you feel like dancin', baby I'm askin'

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It's comin' on closing time Bartender he's ringin' last call These days I don't stand on pride And I ain't afraid to take a fail

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So if you're seein' what you like

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Maybe your first choice he's gone, well that's all right

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Baby I could walk you all the way home

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Baby I could walk you all the way home

Harp outro over verse chords

She took off her stockings, I held them to my face She had your ankles, I felt filled with grace "Two hundred dollars straight in Two-fifty up the ass" she smiled and said She unbuckled my belt, pulled back her hair And sat in front of me on the bed She said, "Honey how's that feel, do you want me to go slow?" My eyes drifted out the window, down to the road below I felt my stomach tighten, the sun bloodied the sky And sliced through the hotel blinds, I closed my eyes Sunlight on the Amatitlan, sunlight streaming through your hair In the Valle de dos Rios, smell of mock orange filled the air We rode with the vaqueros, down into cool rivers of green I was sure the work and that smile coming out 'neath your hat Was all I'd ever need Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough, you know You and I, Maria, we learned it's so She slipped me out of her mouth, "You're ready," she said She took off her bra and panties, wet her finger, slipped it inside And crawled over me on the bed She poured me another whiskey Said, "Here's to the best you ever had" We laughed and made a toast It wasn't the best I ever had Not even close

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Out where the creek turns shallow and sandy And the moon comes skimmin' away the stars When mesquite comes rushin' over the hilltops

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Straight into my arms

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Straight into my arms I'm ridin' hard carryin' a cache of roses And a fresh map that I made Tonight I'm gonna get birth-naked and bury my old soul And dance on its grave And dance on its grave

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It's been a long time comin', my dear

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It's been a long time comin', but now it's here

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And now it's here Well my daddy he was just a stranger Lived in a hotel downtown Well when I was a kid he was just somebody Somebody I'd see around Somebody I'd see around Well now down below and pullin' on my shirt Yeah I've got some kids of my own Well if I had one wish for you in this god forsaken world kid It'd be that your mistakes will be your own That your sins will be your own It's been a long time comin', my dear It's been a long time comin', but now it's here And now it's here

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Well out 'neath the arms of Cassiopeia Where the sword of Orion sweeps Well it's me and you Rosie cracklin' like crossed wires You breathin' in your sleep You breathin' in your sleep Well there's just a spark of a campfire left burnin' Two kids in a sleeping bag beside I reach beneath your shirt put my hands across your belly and feel Another one kickin' inside And I ain't gonna fuck it up this time It's been a long time comin', my dear It's been a long time comin', but now it's here It's been a long time comin', my dear It's been a long time comin', but now it's here And now it's here

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Raney William's playground was among Haven's streets

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Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths

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Names and photos of the young black faces

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Whose death and blood consecrated these places Raney's mother said Raney stay at my side For you are my blessing, you are my pride It's your love here that keeps my soul alive I want you to come home from school and stay inside Raney do his work and put his books away There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday And that brought him home books of the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains

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Summer come and the days grew long

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Raney always had his mother's smile to depend on

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Along the street of stray bullets he made his way

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To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day Come the Fall, the rain flooded these homes In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones It fell hard and dark to the ground It fell without a sound And they took up with a man whose business was the boulevard Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard By the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets are kept In the day, behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he slept And she got lost in the days The smile Raney depended on dusted away The arms that held him were no more his own He lay at night his head pressed to a chest Listening to the ghost in her bones In the kitchen, Raney slipped his hand between the pipes From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side Stood in the dark at his mother's bed Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes In the twilight Raney walked to the station on streets of stone Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept As he lay his head back on his seat and slept He woke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone |

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Been on a barbed wire highway 40 days and nights I ain't complainin' that's my job and it suits me right I got a sweet soul fever rushin' around my head I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed Got on a dead man suit and smilin' skull ring Lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing I keep my heart in my work my troubles in my head And I keep my soul in Maria's bed Hey-hey Hey-hey I been up on sugar mountain, cross the sweet blue sea I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery I got run outta luck and give myself up for dead Then I drank the cool clear waters from Maria's bed Hey-hey Hey-hey

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She give me candy stick kisses 'neath a wolf dog moon

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One sweet breath and she'll take you mister to the upper room

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I was burned by the angels, sold wings of lead

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Then I fell in the roses and sweet salvation of Maria's bed I been out in the desert doin' my time Searchin' through the dust for fool's gold, lookin' for a sign Holy man said hold on brother there's a light up ahead Ain't nothing like the light that shines on me in Maria's bed

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Well I take my blessings at the river head

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I'm living in the light of Maria's bed Hey-hey Hey-hey

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I was barely thirteen years old

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She came out of the Guadalupe's on a night so cold

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Her coat was frosted diamonds in the sallow moon's glow

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My silver palomino Sixteen hands from her withers to the ground I lie in bed and listen to the sound Of the west Texas thunder roll My silver palomino I track her into the mountains she loved Watch her from the rocks above She'd dip her neck and drink from the winter flows My silver palomino Our mustaneros were the very best, sir But they could never lay a rope on her No corral will ever hold The silver palomino In my dreams bareback I ride Over the pradera low and wide As the wind sweeps out the draw 'Cross the scrub desert floor I'd give my riata and spurs If I could be forever yours I'd ride into the serrania where no one goes For my silver palomino Summer drought come hard that year Our herd grazed the land so bare Me and my dad had to blowtorch the thorns off the prickly pear And mother, your hand slipped from my hair Tonight I wake early the sky is pearl, the stars aglow I saddle up my red roan I ride deep into the mountains along a ridge of pale stone Where the air is still with the coming snow As I rise higher I can smell your hair The scent of your skin, mother, fills the air 'Midst the harsh scrub pine that grows I watch the silver palomino

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Well, Jesus was an only son

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As he walked up Calvary Hill

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His mother Mary walking beside him

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In the path where his blood spilled Jesus was an only son In the hills of Nazareth As he lay reading the Psalms of David Held at his mother's feet His mother prayed sleep tight, my child, sleep well For I'll be at your side No shadow, no darkness, no tolling bell Shall pierce your dreams this night In the garden at Gethsemane He prayed for the life he'd never live He beseeched his heavenly Father to remove The cup of death from his lips Now there's a loss that can never be replaced A destination that can never be reached A light you'll never find in another's face A sea whose distance cannot be breached Well, Jesus kissed his mother's hands And whispered, mother still your tears For remember the soul of the universe Will the world, and it appears

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I wanna build me a house on higher ground

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I wanna find me a word where love's the only sound

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High above this road, pale with shiver and doubt

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I wanna show you my love, figure it all out

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With Leah

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I walk this road with a hammer and a fiery lantern With this hand I build, and with this I burn I wanna live in the same house, beneath the same roof Sleep in the same bed, search for the same proof As Leah

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I've got something in my heart I've been waiting to give I've got a life I wanna start, yeah, one I've been waiting to live No more waitin', tonight I feel the light, I say a prayer I open the door, I climb the stairs

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Come to the door, Ma, and unlock the chain

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I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain

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There's nothin' I want, nothin' that you need say

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Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans I fought in the dockyards and with the money I made I knew the fight was my home and blood was my trade Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula and Lafayette town Well they paid me their money, Ma, I knocked the men down I did what I did and it come easily Restraint and mercy, Ma, were always strangers to me I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud Rain poured through the tent to the canvas and mixed with our blood In the twelfth I slipped my tongue over my broken jaw I stood over him and pounded his bloody body into the floor Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on 'Till I felt my glove leather slip 'tween his skin and bone Then the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets I took my good share, Ma, I have no regrets Then I took the fix at the state armory with big John McDowell From high in the rafters I watched myself fall As they raised his arm my stomach twisted and the sky it went black I stuffed my bag with their good money and I never looked back Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the game If you know me one different then speak out his name Ma, if my voice now you don't recognize Then just open the door and look into your dark eyes I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile Just open the door and let me lie down for a while Now the gray rain's fallin' and my ring fighting's done So in the work fields and alleys I take all who'll come If you're a better man than me then just step to the line Show me your money and speak out your crime Now there's nothin' I want, Ma, nothin' that you need say Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way Tonight in the shipyard a man draws a circle in the dirt I move to the center and I take off my shirt I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, man nor time can erase I move hard to the left and I strike to the face

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Blind man wavin' by the side of the road I'm in a flat-bed Ford carrying a heavy load

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With a sweet thing sippin' on a blueberry wine

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On a flat black highway down in Carolina

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Black bird slippin' in a sky of blue

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All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby All I'm thinkin' about is you, honey

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All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby

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All I'm thinkin' about is you

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Ain't nothin' in this world I can do about it

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All I'm thinkin' about is you Little boy carryin' a fishin' pole Little girl pickin' berries straight off of the vine Brown bag filled with a little green toad We hook 'em through the lip and throw 'em off of the line Your sweet brown legs got me feeling so blue All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby...

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Black car shinin' on a Sunday morn

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Mama go to church now Mama go to church now

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Friday night daddy's shirt is torn

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Daddy's goin' downtown Daddy's goin' downtown

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Ain't no one understand this sweet thing we do All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby...

Harmonica solo over verse chords

Field turned up, the seed is sowed Rain comin' in from over 'cross the road Big black curtain comin' 'cross the field Blind 'll see, the lame will be be healed Brown eyed girl, I turned my back on you, now it's lonely All I'm thinkin' about is you...

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For two days, the river keeps you down

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Then you rise to the light without a sound

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Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards

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The turtles eat the skin from your eyes so they lay open to the stars Your clothes give way to the current and river stone Till every trace of who you ever were is gone And the things of the earth they make their claim That the things of heaven may do the same

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But my darling, for your love I give God thanks

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Meet me on the Matamoras

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Meet me on the Matamoras

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Meet me on the Matamoras banks Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds I walk on twine and tire treads My pockets full of dust, my mouth filled with cool stone A pale moon opens the earth to its bones

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I long my darlin' for your kiss

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For your sweet love I give God thanks A touch of your loving fingertips Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras banks Your sweet memory comes on the evening wind I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again The lights of Brownsville across the river shine A shout rings out, into the silty red river I dive I long, my darling, for your kiss For your sweet love I give God thanks The touch of your loving fingertips Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras banks Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras Meet me on the Matamoras banks

Bruce Springsteen : Devils And Dust
2005

Devils And Dust

All The Way Home

Reno

Long Time Comin'

Black Cowboys

Maria's Bed

Silver Palomino

Jesus Was An Only Son

Leah

The Hitter

All I'm Thinkin' About

Matamoras Banks

Bruce Springsteen : Devils And Dust 2005

Devils And Dust

All The Way Home

Reno

Long Time Comin'

Black Cowboys

Maria's Bed

Silver Palomino

Jesus Was An Only Son

Leah

The Hitter

All I'm Thinkin' About

Matamoras Banks

Bruce Springsteen : Devils And Dust
2005