How many of these Bruce Springsteen songs can you name?

We’ll give you the lyric, you name the track.

Sam Morris / AP

Dan DeLuca

Published Aug 21, 2024

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are playing Citizens Bank Park in South Philly on Wednesday and Friday in two shows that were originally scheduled for last summer but postponed due to illness.

To celebrate these long awaited shows we’re putting your knowledge of the Boss to the test. We’ve compiled lyrics from 18 of his songs, all you have to do is give us the title of those songs.

No Googling, and good luck!

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Born in the U.S.A.
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“Born down in a dead man’s town / The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.”
Atlantic City
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“Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night / And they blew up his house too”
Devil’s Arcade
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“You said, ‘Heroes are needed, so heroes get made’ / Somebody made a bet, somebody paid.”
Shut Out The Light
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“Well deep in a dark forest, a forest filled with rain / Beyond a stretch of Maryland pines there's a river without a name”
The River
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“Well I got Mary pregnant, and man that was all she wrote / And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a wedding coat.”
Thunder Road
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“You can hide ‘neath your covers and study your pain / Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain”
Badlands
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“Poor man wanna be rich / Rich man wanna be king / And the king ain’t satisfied till he rule everything”
Be True
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“You deserve better than this, little girl, can’t you see that you do? / Well, you prove it to me, and I’ll prove it to you”
My City of Ruins
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“Now the sweet bells of mercy drift through the evening trees / Young men on the corner, like scattered leaves”
Dancing in the Dark
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“Message’s keep getting clearer, radio’s on and I’m moving round the place / I check my look in the mirror, wanna change my clothes my hair my face”
Last Man Standing
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“Snakeskin vest and a sharkskin suit / Cuban heels on your boots / Kick in the band and side by side / You take the crowd on their mystery ride”
Sherry Darlin’
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“You’re Mama’s yappin’ in the back seat / Tell her to push over and move them big feet / Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency”
Brilliant Disguise
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“Now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man / But don’t look too hard, into the pal of my hand”
Ricky Wants A Man of Her Own
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“Well Daddy says when he drops her off Friday night at the gym / She slides way down in the front seat so the kids won’t see her with him”
All Or Nothin’ At All
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“Well I don’t want to be greedy, but girl there ain’t no doubt / That you ain’t gonna get what you need, with one foot in bed and one foot out”
Hello Sunshine
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“You know I always loved a lonely town, those empty streets, no one around / You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way”
Hungry Heart
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“I met her in a Kingstown bar / We fell in love I knew it had to end / We took what we had and we ripped it apart / Now here I am down in Kingstown again”
Land of Hope and Dreams
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“Leave behind your sorrows / Let this day be the last / Tomorrow there'll be sunshine / And all this darkness past”

Now that you’ve taken the quiz, read our conversation with the E Street Band’s Steve Van Zan dt and about that time Reagan compelled Springsteen to take a political stand.

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Design and Development: Sam Morris and Charmaine Runes
Reporting: Dan DeLuca
Editing: Sam Morris and Bedatri D.Choudhury
Digital Editing: Patricia Madej and Evan Weiss

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