From Small Things Big Things One Day Come Chords

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From Small Things Big Things One Day Come by Bruce Springsteen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Bm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			D 
  At sixteen she quit high school  
to make her fortune in the promised land 
          G 
She got a job behind the counter in an 
    D 
all night hamburger stand  
She wrote faithfully home to mama 
                               Bm 
"Now mama don't you worry none" 

         D 
From small things, mama 
A                     D 
Big things one day come 
It was late one Friday he pulled in out of the dark 
       G 
He was tall and handsome; first she 
         D 
took his order, then she took his heart  
They bought a house on the hillside 
                               Bm 
Where little feet soon would run 

         D 
From small things, mama 
A                     D 
Big things one day come 
       G 
Oh but love is fleeting 
     D 
it's sad but true 
              G 
But when your heart is beating 
    A 
You don't wanna hear the news 
    D 
She packed her bags and  
with a Wyomie County real estate man 
        G 
She ran down to Tampa 
        D 
In and "El Dorado Grande" 
She wrote back, "Dear Mama 
                             Bm 
Life is just heaven in the sun 

     D 
From small things, mama 
A                     D 
Big things one day come" 
  

Well alright... 

  

Solo: 
     D G D   Bm    D A  D 


         G 
Well she shot him dead 
     D 
On a sunny Florida road 
          G 
When they caught her all she said 
                A 
Was she couldn't stand the way he drove 

  

     D 
Back home dear Johnny 
Prays for his baby's parole 
         G 
He waits on the hillside 
          D 
Where the Wyomie waters roll 
At his feet and almost grown now 
                                      Bm 
A blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son 
     D 
Well from small things, mama 
A                     D 
Big things one day come 
Well from small things, mama 
A                     D 
Big things one day come 
    	

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