Bruce Springsteen - Zero And Blind Terry

bruce springsteen

zero and blind terry

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the skulls met the pythons
A E
down at the first street station
C#m G#m
alliances have been made in alleyways
F#m B
all across the nation
E
these boys live off the milk of a silver jet
A E
and the love of sweet young women
C#m G#m
now the pythons are down from old englishtown
F#m B
and they’re lookin’ to do some livin’
E
well the leader of the pythons
A E
is a kid they just call zero
C#m G#m
now terry’s pop says these kids are some kind of monsters
F#m B
but terry says “no , pop , they’re just plain heroes”
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zero and terry they found a love that burns like wild fire
A E
now terry’s Daddy understood that this zero was no good
B A
a child , a thief and a liar
C#m
well from out of the darkness that breaks the dawn
G#m
zero rode like twilight
C#m A
he said “tonight’s the night , blind terry , come on”
E B A
terry come on , tonight is the night
B E
pack your bags , baby
A B E
and together they ran like reindeers through the street
A B E
like tomorrow the earth was gonna catch up on fire
A B E A
now terry’s dad hired some troopers to kill zero and bring terry back home
B E
they crawled up in the night
A B E
like firelight
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oooh . . .
E
now snow – white troopers from the council of crime
A E
rode silver foxes through terry’s field
C#m G#m
oh they met the pythons down on route 9
F#m B
but they refused to yield
E
the pythons fought with buzz guns
A E
and the troopers with swords like light
C#m G#m
and zero and terry they ran away
F#m B
as the gang fought all through the night
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well now some folks say zero and terry got away
A E
others said they were caught and brought back
C#m G#m
but still them young pilgrims to this day
F#m B
go to that spot way down by the railroad track
E A
where the troopers met the pythons
E A
old timers cry on a hot august night
E A
if you look hard enough , if you try
E A
you’ll catch zero and terry and all the pythons
E A
oh just hiking the streets of the sky
E A
just walkin’ , hiking the streets of the sky
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just hiking the streets of the sky