Long Walk Home

by Bruce Springsteen · posted by saints_springsteen

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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

VERSE 1:

 7    7    7  -8   -8  -8   8   8
Last night I stood at your doorstep

  7     7  7  7   7  -8    -8    8
Tryin' to figure out what went wrong

 7   7      7     7     7  7  7 -8   8    8   -8
You just slipped something into my palm then you 
 -6    6
were gone

7  7     7     7   7    7    -8   -8  8  8
I could smell the same deep green of Summer

7  7  7   7   7     7    -8  -8  8   8
Above me the same night sky was glowing

7  7     7  7   7   7    -8  -8   8    8  -8  -6
In the distance I could see the town where I was 
 6
born


CHORUS:

 7   -8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
It's gonna be a long walk home

 8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling dont't wait up for me

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

-8 -8   7    6
A long walk home


VERSE 2:

7   7   7   -8    -8    8   8
In town I passed Sal's grocery

 7   7  7   7  -8   -8     8
The barbershop on South Street

7   7    7    7   -8 -8
I looked in their faces

 -8  -8   8    8   -8   -8    7 -7
They were all rank strangers to me

 7   7   7     7   -8   -8 8 8   8
The veteran's hall high upon the hill

  7    7  7   -8 -8 8
Stood silent and alone

 7  7  7   7   -8  -8    -8  8  8
The diner was shuttered and boarded

 -6  -6 -6  -6    -6   -6   6
With a sign that just said gone


CHORUS:

 7   -8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
It's gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

 6   7  7  7  -8   7   -6   6
It's gonna be a long walk home


(Guitar Solo)

(Saxophone Solo)


VERSE 3:

 7   -8-8-8-8   8  8  -9  -9
Here everybody has a neighbour

7  7  7 7  -8 8   6
Everybody has a friend

-8-8-8-8   8  8 -9 -9  7  7  7  -8 6
Everybody has a reason to begin again


VERSE 4:

7   7  7    7    7      7   -8 -8  -8 8    8
My father said, "Son you're lucky in this town

 7   7  7  7  7   -8   -8 8   8
Such a beautiful place to be born

7   7    -8   -8  -8   -8  8   8
It just wraps its arms around you

7 7 7    -8    8  -8   7 7 7  7   -6 -6
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes alone

 7   7    7    7    7  7  -8-8  -8  8     8
You know that flag flying over the courthouse

  7   7    7     7   -8  -8  -8   8
Means certain things are set in stone

 6  7   7    -8   -8   8   8   7   -6  6
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't


CHORUS:


7   -8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
It's gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

 6   7  7  7  -8   7   -6   6
It's gonna be a long walk home

7   -8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
It's gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

8  8   8   8  -8   -8     8   8   8  -8
Hey pretty darling don't wait up for me 

-8 -8 -8 8  -8   7    7
Gonna be a long walk home

 6   7  7  7  -8   7   -6   6
It's gonna be a long walk home


(Guitar Solo)

(Saxophone Solo)

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