Blinded by the Light

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

- words and music by Bruce Springsteen

- Manfred Mann's Earth Band version (Warner 8252) was released August 1976

and reached #1 in early 1977. It was in the Billboard Top 40 for 15 weeks.

"The Roaring Silence" (Warner 3055)

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Madman drummers b__mers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round

With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground

The calliope crashed to the ground

But she was...

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes

She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong, play the song with the funky break"

And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside

And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride

Asked me if I needed a ride

But she was...

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light

She got down but she never got tired

She's gonna make it through the night

She's gonna make it through the night

------ guitar solo ------

But mama, that's where the fun is

But mama, that's where the fun is

Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun

But mama, that's where the fun is

Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east

Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone, that's where they expect it least"

And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner, watching the young girls dance

And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone, reminding him of romance

The calliope crashed to the ground

But she was...

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

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{the following two sections are sung simultaneously}

1) ~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

~ Blinded by the light

2) ~ Madman drummers b__mers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

~ In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

~ With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round

~ With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground

~ Now Scott with a slingshot finially found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand

~ And some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddy's within earshot save the buckshot, turn up the band

~ Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes

~ She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong"

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She got down but she never got tired

She's gonna make it through the night

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