Bruce Springsteen - JAMES LINCOLN DEERE video free download

Bruce Springsteen, this is Nebraska acoustic home demo was recorded at Springsteen's home in Colt's Neck, NJ,

between September 1981 and May 1982

lyrics

My name is James Francis Deere

I was born in Remington

Found my home in Richfield prison

Where I paid for the wrongs I done

Once, I was free and on the streets of Indiana

And I was twenty-two

Just a kid, no better or worse than you

Me and Terry married in the spring

We moved in with her ma and pa

On our wedding night she sighed, "Jimmy,

We can have anything we want."

She got a job in Silverton

We worked hard and we scraped and saved

And we got by all right

On the money that we made

Terry had a brother

A brother, name of Sill

Made a livin' stealin' farm equipment

Down in Wiggonville

He'd sit at my kitchen table Friday nights

His roll of dough he'd flash

Say, "Johnny, you need a little extra work

All you gotta do is ask."

You got a wife and a child to feed

There's nobody lookin' out here for you

In this world a man takes what he can

Or he ain't nothin' but a fool

Then came the shutdowns

And our whole world went black

Man said, "These jobs are goin' boys*

And they ain't comin' back."*

Then I required a bigger job

Couldn't find none

Found myself sittin'

On the curb outside Sill's house

Trial, trial was short

An honest man had died

They put us on the prison trucks

And let us ride

Now I got nothin' to do

'Cept wait for these days to pass

I see my wife and child

Through double pained Richfield glass

Me and Sill, we robbed a Stop and Shop

On a cold and windy night

I had my pistol

And I shot a boy in flight.

I held my pistol to his face

His eyes caught fire with fear

I said, "Remember me before you die.

My name is James Lincoln Deere."