Downbound Train Chords by Bruce Springsteen

[Start]

[Intro]
Gm Bb F Gm Bb F
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[Verse]
        Gm  F           
I had a job I had a girl
Bb              F                         
I had something going mister in this world
           G7                     Bb  
I got laid off down at the lumber yard
              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 you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train


[Chorus]
              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
            Eb                        F      
Nights as I sleep I hear that whistle whining
                             Gm  
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
      Eb              F          Gm        Eb F    
And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound ■  train


[Inst]
Ebmaj7 F Gm7 Gm Gm7 Eb
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F Gm Cm7 F
■ ■  ■   ■


[Bridge]
Gm                      Bb   
Last night I heard your voice
                F                       
You were crying crying you were so alone
              Gm             Bb  
You said your love had never died
         F                     
You were waiting for me at home
          Gm                       Bb   
Put on my jacket I ran through the woods


[Verse]
             F                             
I ran 'til I thought my chest would explode
           Gm7      Gm         Bb     
There in a clearing beyond the highway
       F                                
In the moonlight our wedding house shone
                     Gm7 
I rushed through the yard


[Chorus]
  Gm                Bb                          F   
I burst through the front door my head pounding hard
                F      
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
            Eb                  F            
Now I swing a sledgehammer on a railroad gang
                              Gm         Eb  F   
Knocking down them cross ties working in the rain


[Outro]
Gm Eb F Gm Bb F Gm Bb
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    F                           Gm                        
Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train
Bb F G7 Gm Bb F
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Gm Bb F
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