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Song title: Bobby Jean


Bobby Jean

Well I came by your house the other day,
your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing
that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you we’ve known each other
ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others
turned away turned up their noise
We liked the same music we liked the same bands
we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest,
the wildest things we’d ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me
I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now we went walking in the rain
talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there ain’t nobody nowhere nohow
gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you’ll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room there’ll be a radio playing
And you’ll hear me sing this song
Well if you do you’ll know I’m thinking of you
and all the miles in between
And I’m just calling one last time
not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby,
good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean

Statistics from the KILLING FLOOR (www.brucespringsteen.it) database

Published on the following official releases:

First known live performance: 29/06/1984 Civic Center, Saint Paul,MN ,USA
Last known live performance: 25/02/2017 Mt. Smart Stadium, Auckland ,New Zealand

Song 'history':


Published on BORN IN THE USA, in 1984
A stable inclusion in pratically each Born in the U.S.A. tour show, missing a sole performance
The song (in live version) was then included in the 'LIVE 1975-85' box set
A frequent number (23 apparitions) of renderings during the Tunnel of Love tour
Performed 1 times during the 1988 Amnesty International tour
Widely used in the Human Touch tour, as it was performed 79 times
A frequent number (63 apparitions) of renderings during the Ghost of Tom Joad tour
Largely (90 times) played during the Reunion tour
Played during the Conventional Hall shows in 2000
A discrete number of performances (58) was given during the Rising tour
Played during the 'Double Take' shows in 2002
Played during the rehearsals for the Devils and dust Tour, in Mar/Apr 2005.
17 perfomances were given during the Devils and Dust tour
It only saw the light less than a dozen times in the whole The Seeger Session tour
Bruce inserted it 19 times in the setlists of the Magic tour
A frequent number (33 apparitions) of renderings during the Working on a Dream tour
Bruce inserted it 39 times in the setlists of the Wrecking Ball tour
Often played during the High Hopes tour (13 times)
Often played during the 2016 The River tour (38 times)
Performed 9 times during the 2017 Summer tour

The song was also played in informal happenings or off-tour appearances
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