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Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

A×
C#mDiagram coming soon
D××
BDiagram coming soon
F#mDiagram coming soon
E

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: (A  C#m  D  B)(2x) 
 
     A 
Well I came by your house the other day 
     C#m 
Your Mother said you went away 
    D 
She said there was nothing that I could have done 
          B 
There was nothing nobody could say 
A 
Me and you we've known each other 
C#m 
Ever since we were sixteen 
  D 
I wished I would have known, I wished I could've called you 
        B                 A   C#m  D  B 
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean 
 
        A 
Now you hung with me when all the others 
C#m 
Turned away, turned up their nose 
   D 
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands 
   B 
We liked the same clothes 
   A 
We told each other that we were the wildest 
    C#m 
The wildest things we'd ever seen 
      D 
Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you 
        B                 A   C#m  D  B 
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean 
 
    D 
Now we went walking in the rain 
F#m 
Talking about the pain that from the world we hid 
          D                               A                      E 
Now there aint nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did 
 
A 
Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere 
        C#m 
In some bus or train travelling along 
        D 
In some motel room you'll hear a radio playing 
           B 
And you'll hear me sing this song 
     A 
Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you 
    C#m 
And all the miles in between 
    D 
And I'm just calling one last time 
       B 
Not to change your mind 
                  D                             E         A   C#m  D  B 
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck, goodbye Bobby Jean 
          
 

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Chord set

A · C#m · D · B · F#m · E

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.