Downbound Train Chords by Bruce Springsteen

[Start]

[Intro]
Gm Gm7 F Gm Bb F
■  ■   ■ ■  ■  ■


[Verse]
             Gm          Bb  
Well I had a job I had a girl
                F                         
I had something going mister in this world
           Gm              Bb        
I got laid off down at the lumberyard
              F                 
Our love went bad times got hard
      Eb               F       
Now I work down at the car wash
                          Gm  
Where all it ever does is rain
         Eb               F            Gm        F    
Don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train
              Gm          Bb
She just said Joe I gotta go
          F                           
We had it once we ain't got it anymore
               Gm           Bb    
She packed her bags left me behind
             F                         
She bought a ticket on the Central Line


[Chorus]
            Eb                        F      
Nights as I sleep I hear that whistle whining
                             Gm  
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
         Eb                 F          Gm        Gm7 F      
Don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound ■   ■ train


[Inst]
Eb Ebmaj7 Eb F Gm Eb
■  ■      ■  ■ ■  ■ 
F Gm7 F
■ ■   ■


[Verse]
Gm                      Gm7  
Last night I heard your voice
Bb              F                       
You were crying crying you were so alone
              Gm             Bb  
You said your love had never died
    Fsus4 F                     
You were  waiting for me at home
         Gm              Bb               
I put on my jacket I ran through the woods
      F                       Bb    F      
I ran 'til I thought my chest would explode
           Gm       Bb                
There in a clearing beyond the highway
       F             Bb            F    
In the moonlight our wedding house shone
                     Gm                       Bb        
I rushed through the yard I burst through the front door
                 F                           
My head pounding hard up the stairs I climbed
             Gm               Bb   
The room was dark our bed was empty
                  F                 
Then I heard that long whistle whine
      Eb                                   Bb   
And I dropped to my knees hung my head and cried


[Chorus]
              Eb                         F   
Now I swing a sledgehammer on a railroad gang
                                             Gm  
Knocking down them cross ties working in the rain
         Eb                 F        Gm7 F              
Don't it feel like you're a rider on a   downbound train


[Solo]
Gm Bb F Gm Bb F Gm7 Bb
■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ ■   ■ 
F Gm Bb F Gm Bb F Gm
■ ■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ ■ 
Bb F Gm Bb F Gm Bb F
■  ■ ■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■
Gm Bb F
■  ■  ■


[Outro]