Hey Blue Eyes

Bruce Springsteen

RockEasy for beginners3 chords

How to play it

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

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
Capo on 3rd fret
              
 
 
Standard Tuning 
 
Capo on the 3rd fret 
 
 
 
 
 
  Intro:      C      G      C      G 
 
 
C                      G    C                G 
 They're holding a committee of treason and lies 
C                    G    D               G 
 Double speak and sedition then somebody dies 
C                             G    C                    G 
 From the hills the smell of lilacs then the repeat of guns 
            C                               G                D                           G 
 When she closes the window and draws the blinds her first touch sucks the air from my lungs 
 
 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
 
 
          C                                G     C                             G 
 She says, "In this house we've abandoned history, in this house there are no laws 
C                         G      D              G 
 Just the false taste of paradise and then the fall 
C                               G      C                          G 
 In this house the guilty go unpunished and blood and silence prevail 
C                      G       D                     G 
 Here the dead remain nameless, the nameless remain jailed" 
 
 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
 
 
C                                G            C                            G 
 In this house there's just the dust of bones, the basement's filled with liars 
C                             G      D                  G 
 In this house our sons and daughters are spilled like wine 
C                         G     C                        G 
 So come close my pretty darling and let me feel your disease 
C                       G                D                  G 
 Tonight I'll have you naked and crawling at the end of my leash 
 
 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
 
 
 C      G      C      G 
 
 
          C                       G   C                   G 
 She says, "In this house it's so easy to set a world on fire 
C                      G                       D                       G 
 All you need is the need and the money and a soul full of reckless desire 
C                          G    C                          G 
 Upstairs the landlord is dining here with his criminal friends 
        C                                       G                       D              G 
 Don't worry, they'll have the bags packed and be long gone before the real fucking begins" 
 
 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
C         G    C                  G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, what you doing tonight 
C         G    D        G 
 Hey Blue Eyes, it's alright 
 
 
C      G      C      G      C      G      D      G

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Chord set

C · G · D

Practice tip

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