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            One Step Up
Bruce Springsteen
Album: Tunnel of Love
Capo 3
G6(add9): 3 x 0 2 3 0
Dsus2/F#: 2 x 0 2 3 0
Em7:      0 2 0 0 3 0
A7sus4:   x 0 2 0 3 0
Pick pattern: 6 4 3 1 2 4 3 x 2 each bar.
[Intro]
G D Em D | G
  G6(add9)                      Dsus2/F#
e|------0--------------0-------|------0--------------0-------|
B|---------3--------------3----|---------3--------------3----|
G|----2--------2-----2--------2|----2--------2-----2--------2|
D|--0--------0-----0--------0--|--0--------0-----0--------0--|
A|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
E|3--------------3-------------|2--------------2-------------|
 
 Em7                            Dsus2/F#
e|------0--------------0-------|------0--------------0-------|
B|---------3--------------3----|---------3--------------3----|
G|----2--------2-----2--------2|----2--------2-----2--------2|
D|--0--------0-----0--------0--|--0--------0-----0--------0--|
A|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
E|0--------------0-------------|2--------------2-------------|
[Verse 1]
G               
 Woke up this morning the house was cold
D
 Checked the furnace she wasn't burnin'
Em
 Went out and hopped in my old Ford
D                  
 Hit the engine but she ain't turnin'
G  
 We've given each other some hard lessons lately
D
 But we ain't learnin'
Em                  D              G
 We're the same sad story that's a fact
G         A7sus4           G  D  Em  D
 One step up and two steps back
[Verse 2]
          G
Bird on a wire outside my motel room
D
 But he ain't singin'
Em
 Girl in white outside a church in June
D
 But the church bells they ain't ringing
G
 Sittin' here in this bar tonight
D 
 But all I'm thinkin' is
Em                D              G
 I'm the same old story same old act
G         A7sus4           G  D  Em  D
 One step up and two steps back
[Verse 3]
G
 It's the same thing night on night
D
 Who's wrong baby who's right
Em
 Another fight and I slam the door on
D
 Another battle in our dirty little war
G
 When I look at myself I don't see
D
 The man I wanted to be
Em                   D                  G
 Somewhere 'long the line I slipped off track
               G         A7sus4           G   D  Em  D
Caught - movin' one step up and two steps back
[Verse 4]
G
 There's a girl across the bar, I ...
D
 get the message she's sendin'
Em
 Mmm she ain't lookin' to married and
D
 me, well honey I'm pretending
G
 Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
D
 The music was never-ending
   Em                    D            G
We danced as the evening sky faded to black
G         A7sus4           G                               D
 One step up and two steps back (One step up and two steps back)
                          Em                              D
One step up and two steps back (One step up and two steps back)
                          G  D  Em  D
One step up and two steps back
[Outro]
G D Em D