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the price you pay

by Bruce Springsteen · posted by harpmeister

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
 4   -4   5   5    5
you make up your mind,
 5     5   -4   -4     4    4
you choose the chance you take
 4    4   4   4   -4   5  5    5
you ride to where the highway ends
 5   -4 -4 -4   -4
and the desert breaks
 4   4  4 -4 5 5   5    5   5   -4-4   4   3
out on to an open road you ride until the day
 4    4    3   3   5    5   -4    5   -4    4   4
you learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

 4    4   -4     5     5    5
now with their hands held high
 5      5     5  -4   5  -4 4   4
they reached out for the open skies
 4  -4  5    5     5     5    5    5    5
and in one last breath they built the roads
 -4    -4  -4    5    -4
they`d ride to their death
  4  4  -4    5     5    5    55-4   5  -4    4 4
driving on through the night unable to break away
  4  -4   5  5     5   -4  5  -4     4   4
from the restless pull of the price you pay

(chorus)
56  6   -6    6   6 -55  4    4   -4  -4
oh the price you pay,oh the price you pay
 4   4   -4    5   5 5  -4    5  -4     4   4
now you can`t walk away from the price you pay

now they`d come so far and they`d waited so long
just to end up caught in a dream where everything
goes wrong
where the dark of night holds back the light of day
and you`ve gotta stand and fight for the price you
pay.

(repeat chorus)

little girl down on the strand
with that pretty little baby in your hands
do you remember the story of the promised land
how he crossed the desert sands
and could not enter the chosen land
on the banks of the river he stayed
to face the price you pay.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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