Willie Nile - One Guitar

First performance: 14/01/2012

Coverinfo

Bruce performed the song 5 times:
 
 
Always during Light of Day, together with Willie Nile 
 
2025-01-18 Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
Bruce makes a surprise appearance at the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Light Of Day Benefit.
 
 

Songinfo

Written by Willie Nile and Frankie Lee, 2010. Originally recorded by Willie Nile and taken from the Album The Innocent Ones
(September 6, 2011)
 
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

Willie Nile (born Robert Anthony Noonan, June 7, 1948, Buffalo, NY)
 
He performed 19 times live with Bruce Springsteen.
 


2025-01-18 Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
2021-12-13 Town Hall, New York City, NY
2020-01-18 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2015-05-28 Best Buy Theater, New York City, NY
2015-01-17 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2014-01-18 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2012-01-14 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2011-01-15 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2010-01-16 Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ
2009-11-22 HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY
2009-09-30 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
2004-12-19 Harry's Roadhouse, Asbury Park, NJ (Evening)
2004-11-06 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park, NJ
2003-12-07 Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ
2003-11-01 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park, NJ
2003-10-04 Shea Stadium, New York City, NY
2003-10-03 Shea Stadium, New York City, NY
2003-09-20 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien, NY
2000-11-03 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park, NJ
  

Lyrics

It is the middle of the night right in the middle of the street
It could be uptown, downtown but I can feel the beat
There is a marchin' drum there is a song unsung
It could be your dream, my dream it's not the only one
I'm a soldier marchin' in an army
Got no gun to shoot
But what I got is one guitar
I got this one guitar
I see the risin' smoke I hear a heartbreak joke
Hey all my brothers and sisters I thuink it's time we spoke
I've only got six strings but like a bell they ring
Its like a jet plane, insane crashin' in my brain
I'm a soldier marchin' in an army
Got no gun to shoot
But what I got is one guitar
I got this one guitar
And it goes... na na na...
So if you get knocked down you gotta take a stand
For all the outcast, dead last who need a helping hand
So get your tambourines and turn your arms up loud
And raise your voices, voices up above this crowd