Im On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

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Capo: Fret 4
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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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

Please take a second to scroll down to the bottom of the page
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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

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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]
            
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----------, ho

              
o!   Woo -oo, 


hoo - hoo! :||

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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

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