Black Cowboys   Bruce Springsteen

Black Cowboys  Bruce Springsteen






 


 BLACK COWBOYS


 


 [(G)]Rainey Williams playground was the Mott Haven streets


 Where he ran[(C)] past melted candles and [(G)]flower wreaths


 [(C)]Names and photos of young black [(G)]faces


 Whose death and [(D)]blood consecrated these p[(G)]laces


 


 Raineys [(G)]mother said Rainey stay at my side


 For you a[(C)]re my blessing, you are my[(G)] pride


 Its your[(C)] love here that keeps my soul [(G)]alive


 I want you to[(D)] come home from school and stay i[(G)]nside


 


 Rainey'd do his [(G)]work and put his books away


 There was a channe[(C)]l showed a Western movie every[(G)]day


 Lynette brought him [(C)]home books on the black cowboys of the Ok[(G)]lahoma range


 The Seminole[(D)] scouts that fought the tribes of the[(G)] Great Plains


 


 [(C)]Summer come and the [(G)]days grew long


 [(C)]Rainey always had his mother's [(G)]smile to depend on


 [(C)]Along the street of stray[(G)] bullets he made his way


 [(C)]To the warmth of her a[(G)]rms at the end of each[(C)] day[(G)]


 


 [(G)]Come the fall, the rain flooded these homes


 Here in[(C)] Ezekiel's valley of dr[(G)]y bones


 It[(C)] fell hard and dark to the grou[(G)]nd


 [(D)]It fell without a sou[(G)]nd


 


 [(G)]Lynette took up with a man whose business was the boulevard


 Whose[(C)] smile was fixed in a face that was never off g[(G)]uard


 In the[(C)] pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his se[(G)]crets he kept


 In the[(D)] day, behind drawn curtains in Lynette's bedr[(G)]oom he slept


 


 [(C)]Then she got lost in the[(G)] days


 T[(C)]he smile Raney depended [(G)]on dusted away


 [(C)]The arms that held him were n[(G)]o more his home


 [(D)]He lay at night his head pressed to her che[(G)]st listening to the gh[(C)]ost in her


 bo[(G)]nes


 


 [(G)]In the kitchen Rainey slipped his hand between the pipes


 [(C)]  


 and stu[(G)]ck it in his coat side


 [(C)]Stood in the dark at his m[(G)]other's bed


 Brushed h[(D)]er hair and kissed her e[(G)]yes


 


 [(G)]In the twilight Rainey walked to the station on streets of stone


 Through Pennsy[(C)]lvania and Ohio his train d[(G)]rifted on


 Through th[(C)]e small towns of Indiana the big [(G)]train crept


 As he l[(D)]ay his head back on the seat and sle[(G)]pt


 


 He awoke and the [(G)]towns gave way to muddy fields of green


 Corn and c[(C)]otton and endless nothin' in bet[(G)]ween


 Over the rutted[(C)] hills of Oklahoma the red sun s[(G)]lipped and was gone


 The moon [(D)]rose and stripped the earth to its b[(G)]one


 


 


 Well thats the song the way i play it.


 im pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really







    
    
    

        
            
            
            
        
    
    

    

    

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