The E Street Shuffle

Pre Intro 
Am Em Dm G C 

Intro 
C F C F   C F C F 
C F C F   C F C F  C 
                  (Sparks fly) 

 
C                                   F                             C  F C F 
Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk in handsome and hot 
        C                                    F                             C  F C F 
All the little girls' souls go weak when the man-child gives them a double shot 
    F7                              F                 F7     F 
The schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night 
    C                                        F                       C             F 
The teenage tramps in skintight pants do the E Street dance and everything's alright 
        G7 
And the kids down there, either dancin or hooked up in a scuffle 
           Am                           F 
Dressed in snakeskin suits, packed with Detroit muscle 
        Ab        G        C      C F C F  C F C F 
They're 'doin the E Street shuffle 
 

 
          C                          F                           C               F 
Now those E Street brats in twilight duel flashlight phantoms in full star stream 
     C                                 F                             C    F 
Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet sixteen 
    F7                                     F                                    F7              F 
The newsboys say the heat's been bad since Power Thirteen gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle 
            C                               F                    C                 F 
And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner 'keepin those crazy boys out of trouble 
       G7 
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains 
      Am                     F 
She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane 
    Ab              G            C   F 
She drives all them local boys insane 
C  F     C  F  C 
Yes,    she does 
 

 
       F           Am   G  Am       G   Am  Dm       Em          Am 
Little Angel says, "Oh,oh, oh" (Oh, oh, oh).....everybody form a line 
Am  G   Am      G   Am   Dm         Em          Am    Dm  G7 
Oh, oh, oh (oh, oh, oh......oh everybody form a line 
 

 
         C                                   F                             C  F C F 
When the sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk in handsome and hot 
         C                                    F                             C   F C F 
All them little girls' souls go weak when the man-child gives them a double shot 
           F7                      F 
Oh, Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's, it's a club where 
                   F7                                       F 
All the riot squad goes when they're cashing in for a cheap hustle 
         C                                                 F             C      F 
But them boys are still on the corner loose and doing that lazy E Street shuffle 
            G7 
And as them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams 
       Am                          F 
Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans 
         Ab          G           C     C F 
And they move on out down to the scene 
                         C F C F    F C F G 
All the kids are dancing 
 

Interlude 
Bbm  Eb Bbm Eb 
Bbm  Eb           Bbm   (Break/pause) 

Outro 
Bbm Eb Bbm Eb 
Bbm Eb Bbm Eb 
Bbm Eb Ebm Eb 
Bbm Eb        (Fade away)