Im On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
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Capo: Fret 4
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Song: I'm on fire
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Composer: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Born in the U.S.A.
Tabbed by: DJ 8th Mar 2015
To hear the album track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtGTwIxZZs
Here's a link to a live acoustic version, a step down in Eb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZxAWdfNp4
NOTE: In the above video Bruce plays with the Capo at the 3rd fret,
so the song is a semi-tone lower than the original studio version.
He also throws in random embellishments with a Csus4 (x33010),
ocassionally a Asus2 (x02200), and sometimes adds a passing B note
(x2xxxx) between the Am and C chords in the Intro, Break and Coda.
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of E)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= x32010 = x02210 = 133211 = 320033
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Hey, little gi
rl, is your da
ddy home?
Did he go away
, and leave yo
u all alone?
Hmm - mm, I go
t a bad de - s
ire, woh - oh
- oh, I'm on
fire
[Verse 2]
Tell me now, b
aby, is he goo
d to you?
Can he do to y
ou the things
that I'd do?
Oh - woh, I ca
n take you hig
her, woh - hoh
- hoh, I'm on
fire
[Instrumental break]
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[Bridge]
Sometimes, it'
s like someone
took a knife,
baby, edgy an
d dull,
And cut a six-
inch valley th
rough the midd
le of my skull
[Verse 3]
At night, I wa
ke up, with th
e sheets soaki
ng wet,
And a freight
train running
through the mi
ddle of my hea
d,
Only you ...ca
n cool my de -
sire, woh -
woh - woh, I'
m on fire,
Woh - woh - wo
h, I'm on fire
! woh - woh
- woh, I'm on
fire!
Woo, hoo - hoo
!
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[Coda]
||: Woo, hoo
----------, ho
o! Woo -oo,
hoo - hoo! :||
[Repeat]
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As a very subtle alternative to the basic chords above, in the version
below I've indicated chords suggested by a few additional notes that
the keyboards are adding to the arrangement, so for a single acoustic
guitar they may be a slightly more interesting option than just the
long stretches of C and Am in the tab above.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= x32030 = x02213 = x02230
= x32010 = x02210 * = x32013
[Alternative Intro]
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