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Im on Fire

Bruce Springsteen
ChordsKeyECapoFret 4beginner
4.9(500)

Chords in this song7

capo 4 — sounds 4 semitones higher

Intro

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Verse 1

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away, and leave you all alone?
Hmm - mm, I got a bad de - sire,
Woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire

Verse 2

Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I'd do?
Oh - woh, I can take you higher,
Woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire

Instrumental break

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Bridge

Sometimes, it's like someone took a knife,
Baby, edgy and dull, and cut a six-inch valley...
...Through the middle of my skull

Verse 3

At night, I wake up, with the sheets soaking wet,
And a freight train running...
...Through the middle of my head,
Only you ...can cool my de - sire,
Woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire,
Woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire,
Woh - oh - oh, I'm on fire
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Woo, hoo - hoo!

Coda - repeats

Woo, hoo---, hoo! Woo - oo, hoo - hoo!
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As a very subtle alternative to the basic chords,
in the version below I've indicated chords suggested
by a few additional notes that the keyboards add
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 main
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo:
Cadd9 = x32030 Am7 = x02213 C * = x32013
Am = x02210 Asus4 = x02230

Alternative Intro×2

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Alternative instrumental break

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C *
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For the GUITAR chord box diagrams to match my
suggested choices you need to manually select the
following choice of options by clicking on the
forward/backward arrows below four of the diagrams
G Cadd9 Am7 Asus4
<2 of 27> <2 of 10> <3 of 46> <2 of 21>
The other boxes should be the default first option
and don't need any reselecting

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