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Song: I'm on fire
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Composer: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Born in the U.S.A.
Tabbed by: DJ 8th Mar 2015
Here's a link to a live acoustic version in Eb:
--.-/watch?ds49a_jZxAWdfNp4
NOTE: In the above video Bruce plays with the Capo at the 3rd fret,
so the song is a semi-tone lower than the original studio version.
He also throws in random embellishments with a Csus4 (x33010),
ocassionally a Asus2 (x02200), and sometimes adds a passing B note
(x2xxxx) between the Am and C chords in the Intro, Break and Coda.
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of E)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
C = x32010 Am = x02210 F = 133211 G = 320033
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[Intro]
C
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
C
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
C
Did he go away, and leave you all alone?
F Am F G C
Hmm - mm, I got a bad de - sire, woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire!
[Verse 2]
C
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
C
Can he do to you the things that I'd do?
F Am F G C
Oh - woh, I can take you higher, woh - hoh - hoh, I'm on fire!
[Instrumental break]
Am
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Bridge]
F
Sometimes, it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
C Am
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull!
[Verse 3]
C
At night, I wake up, with the sheets soaking wet,
C
And a freight train running through the middle of my head,
F Am F G C
Only you ...can cool my de - sire, woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire,
F G C F G C
Woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire! woh - woh - woh, I'm on fire!
Am C
Woo, hoo - hoo!
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Coda]
Am C
||: Woo, hoo----------, hoo! Woo -oo, hoo - hoo! :|| [Repeat]
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As a very subtle alternative to the basic chords above, in the version
below I've indicated chords suggested by a few additional notes that
the keyboards are adding to the arrangement, so for a single acoustic
guitar they may be a slightly more interesting option than just the
long stretches of C and Am in the tab above.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Cadd9 = x32030 Am7 = x02213 Asus4 = x02230
C = x32010 Am = x02210 C * = x32013
[Alternative Intro]
Cadd9 C
||: / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am7 Am
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Alternative instrumental break]
Asus4 Am
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Cadd9
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Asus4 Am
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C *
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |