Bruce Springsteen

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BRING 'EM HOME

BRING 'EM HOME


If you love this land of the free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

It will make the politicians sad, I know
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They wanna tangle with their foe
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

They wanna test their grand theories
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
With the blood of you and me
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

We'll give no more brave young lives
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
For the gleam in someone's eyes
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

The men will cheer and the boys will shout
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
And we will all turn out
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

The church bells will ring with joy
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
To welcome our darling girls and boys
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

We will lift their voice in song
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
When Johnny comes marching home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from the overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
If you love this land of free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from the overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home

 

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BROTHERS UNDER THE BRIDGE

BROTHERS UNDER THE BRIDGE


Saigon, it was all gone
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town
Up here there's too much brush and canyon
For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night
We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Had enough of town and the street life
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife
Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
Me and the brothers under the bridge

I come home in '72
You were just a beautiul light
In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute you're right there ... and something slips...

 

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BUFFALO GALS

BUFFALO GALS


As I was walking down the street
Down the street, down the street
A pretty girl I chanced to meet
And we danced by the light of the moon

Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
Come out tonight come out tonight
Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
And we'll dance by the light of the moon

I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And he knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a'rockin'
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And we danced by the light of the moon

Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
Come out tonight come out tonight
Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
And we'll dance by the light of the moon

I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And her knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a-rockin'
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And we danced by the light of the moon

 

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BYE BYE JOHNNY

BYE BYE JOHNNY


She drew out all her money out of the southern trustAnd put her little boy aboard a greyhound busLeaving louisiana for the golden westDown came the tears from her happinessHer own little son name ?o johnny b. goodeWas gonna make some motion pictures out in hollywoodBye, bye, bye, byeBye, bye, bye, byeBye bye johnnyGood bye johnny b. goodeShe remembered taking money out from gathering cropAnd buying johnny?s guitar at a broker shopAs long as he would play it by the railroad sideAnd wouldn?t get in trouble he was satisfiedBut never thought that there would come a day like thisWhen she would have to give her son a goodbye kissGoingBye, bye, bye, byeBye, bye, bye, byeBye bye johnnyGood bye johnny b. goodeShe finally got the letter she was dreaming ofJohnny wrote and told her he had fell in loveAs soon as he was married he would bring her backAnd build a mansion for ?em by the railroad trackSo every time they heard the locomotive roarThey?d be a? standin?, a? wavin? by the kitchen doorHowlingBye, bye, bye, byeBye, bye, bye, byeBye bye johnnyGood bye johnny b. goode

 

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CADILLAC RANCH

CADILLAC RANCH


Well, there she sits buddy justa gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch

Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Open up your engines let 'em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur

James Dean in that Mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' thru the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans-Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Open up them engines let 'em roar
Tearing up the highway just a big old dinosaur

Hey, little girlie in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night
You're my last love baby you're my last chance
Don't let 'em take me to the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away

 

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CAMILLA HORNE

CAMILLA HORNE


Camilla Horne, she was born a long, long time ago.
She Came From Germany to the U.S.A.
and was acclaimed as the next Garbo.
They came to her on their knees, to bless them, caress them and
tell them what they need.

But oh, oh, she did not know.
and so she took her place at the bar.
Just another fallen star.

 

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CANDY'S BOY

CANDY'S BOY


In Candy's room, there are pictures of her saviour on the wall
But to get to Candy's room, you got to walk the darkness of Candy's hall
Strangers from the city call my baby's number, and they bring Candy toys
But when I come knockin', she smiles pretty, she knows tonight I'm gonna be Candy's boy

Well in the olden days when the Mongolian gangs rode herd out on route nine
We go ridin' in the rain, runnin' south, way down through the pines
Weekends in the sun in that cheap motel down by the Dynamo
We loved each other till their was nothing left, and drove that old car as hard and fast as she would go

Well I got a cold winter wind blowin' behind me and you
But Candy's got a man who takes care of her better than I do
Alright

Well there's machine and fire, waitin' for us on the edge of town*
And there's some boys for hire, and there waitin' to blow me and Candy down
That's all right cause they can't touch us now baby you'll see
Cause you know I
But I know her name, and I will forever be Candy's boy...
Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm ever, forever be Candy's boy
Alright

 

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CAR WASH

CAR WASH


Well my name is Catherine LeFevre
I work at the Astrowash on Sunset and Vine
I drop my kids at school in the morning
And I pick them up at Mary's just 'fore suppertime

Well I work down at the car wash
For a dollar and a dime
And mister, I hate my boss
It's at the car wash I'm doing my time
Pick up my water bottle and my towel, sir
And I take 'em one by one
From Mercedes to VW's
I do 'em all and I don't favor none

Well someday I'll sing in a night club
I'll get a million-dollar break
A handsome man will come here with a contract in his hand
And say "Catherine, this has all been some mistake"

 

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CAUTIOUS MAN

CAUTIOUS MAN


Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road
He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code
When something caught his eye he'd measure his need
And then very carefully he'd proceed

Billy met a young girl in the early days of May
It was there in her arms he let his cautiousness slip away
In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim
He'd lay back in her arms and laugh at what had happened to him

On his right hand Billy'd tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear
And in which hand he held his fate was never clear
Come Indian summer he took his young lover for his bride
And with his own hands built her a great house down by the riverside

Now Billy was an honest man he wanted to do what was right
He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nights
Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray
For he knew In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay

One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin' his wife's name
She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep, a thousand miles away
He got dressed In the moonlight and down to the highway he strode
When he got there he didn't find nothing but road

Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn't name
Just as the words tattooed 'cross his knuckles he knew would always remain
At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife's face as the moon shone on her skin so white
Filling their room in the beauty of God's fallen light

 

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CHEVROLET DELUXE

CHEVROLET DELUXE


I had a wife and kid, and I tried to settle downI just wanted to live an honest life on the edge of an honest town.But in the end they left me danglin? danglin (in the night? )And I went crazy tryin?, tryin? to walk that thin line.Oh chevrolet deluxe, I bought you with all your accessories,Oh chevrolet deluxe, I bought you with all your accessories,But mister, I can?t keep my payments upI lie awake at night and wonder if I?m tough enoughTo win back the hand of chevrolet deluxe.......They shut the power off down at the mill (the count the third time? )And these days when you ride down main streetIt?s just whitewashed windows and vacancy signsDid you ever think til the end your kids you would never believeThat if you would leave this old town, that it would leave me.My brother?s down in ft bragg, been there for half a yearMan he just got into too much trouble around here.Chevrolet deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,But mister, I can?t keep those payments upChevrolet deluxe, I lost my heart, I lost my guts..........She was sittin? down at highway chevrolet out on route 3She was lookin?g like she was waitin? just for meI worked all summer long and I saved my money upAnd I went down and I put that money downIn the fall, billy, (...? )I drove him down rode down together down to fort braggIn the years that he was gone (...? )(...? ) in the refinery (...? ) go alongChevrolet deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,(...? )Another year end gone, and billy he came home(...? )But it was like all of a sudden there was a curseThings got band and things got worseHmmm... went the power there down at the millHmmm... the thrill when they shut the power down at the mill(...? )Chevrolet deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,But I can?t keep those payments upChevrolet deluxe(...? ) you were so clear to seeNow when I wake in the mornging I don?t know what?s happening to meChevrolet deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,Mister I can?t keep those payments upChevrolet deluxe you let me down took the heart right out of meI saw her when I was 17 down at hansen?s chevroletI made up my mind to get her any how, any way.That whole summer I worked until I had enoughThen I went and put my money down on that chevrolet deluxe.[...]Chevrolet deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,But mister, I can?t keep those payments upChevrolet deluxe, I lost my heart, she took my gut...It don?t matter what you want, it don?t matter what you say,Are you tough enough not to play the way they play.