Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Song: I'm on fire
Album: Born in the U.S..
Tabbed by: DJ
8th Mar 2015
CAPO: 4th fret (Sounds in the key of )
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= x32010 = 133211
= x02210 = 320022
Here's a link to a live acoustic version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZxAWdfNp4
Here Bruce plays the song a semi-tone lower (Capo at 3rd),
and throws in an occasional (x33010) and (x02200).
He also sometimes adds a passing note (x2xxxx)
between the and chords in the Intro, Break and Coda.
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Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away, and leave you all alone?
Hmm - mm, I got a bad de - sire, woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire!
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh - woh, I can take you higher, woh - hoh - hoh, I'm on fire!
[Instrumental break]
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Sometimes, it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull!
At night, I wake up, with the sheets soaking wet,
And a freight train running through the middle of my head,
Only you ...can cool my de - sire, woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire,
Woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire! woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire!
Woo, hoo - hoo!
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[Coda]
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As a subtle alternative to the basic chords above,
in the breaks below it suggests more of what the keyboards are adding:
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
= x32030 = x02213 = x02230
= x32010 = x02210 * = x32013
[Alternative Intro]
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[Alternative break]
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