The New Timer Lyrics

TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM
THE NEW TIMER
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
INTRO:
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VERSE:
He rode the rails since the Great Depression
Fifty years out on the skids
He said "You don't cross nobody
You'll be all right out here kid."
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Left my family in Pennsylvania
Searchin' for work I hit the road
I met Frank in East Texas
In a freight yard blown through with snow
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From Mexico to Colorado
California to the sea
Frank he showed me the ropes sir
Just till I could get back on my feet
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I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh
I picked the peaches from the Marysville trees
They bunked us in a barn just like animals
Me and a hundred others just like me
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VERSE:
We split up come the springtime
I never seen Frank again
'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on a grainer
Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wind
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They found him shot dead outside of Stockton
His body lyin' on a muddy hill
Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen
Somebody killin' just to kill
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BREAK:
Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas
A vision passed before my eyes
A small house sittin' trackside
With the glow of the savior's beautiful light
A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen
Kid sat at a table with his old man
Now I wonder does my son miss me
Does he wonder where I am
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VERSE:
Tonight I pick my campsite carefully
Outside the Sacramento yard
Gather some wood and light a fire
In the early winter dark
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Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me
Heat some coffee and stare out into the black night
I lie awake I lie awake sir
With my machete by my side
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My Jesus your gracious love and mercy
Tonight I'm sorry could not fill
My heart Like one good rifle
And the name of who I ought to kill