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I have always thought it was skull (rhymes with dull) and been pretty outspoken about how wrong soul is. BUT, look at the lyrics in my cassette copy of BUSA: 

It's also "soul" in the "Songs" book, written by Bruce himself. 

But in the Live 75-85 lyrics, soul has been changed to skull and it's very clearly skull in the recording:

So...what is going on here?!

Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road. 

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I don't have the link however... most of his lyrics have been copyrighted with The Library of Congress which is where the original lyrics would be.  But... no matter what the original lyrics say, it doesn't mean he couldn't have changed it live since then.

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Brucebase and SpringsteenLyrics list it as soul.  I just listened to the latest Detroit Archive release and he definitely sings skull.  I'm going to go way back and see what he sang.

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I listened to the first three dates in Memphis, 1984.  All three sound like soul.

In 1985, to my ears it sounds like skull.

Gonna listen to the albums now. lol

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Whatever the lyric sheet says doesn't matter.  I listened to all my albums and a bunch of boots, compared shows before and after 1985.  In 84 it sounds like he's singing soul. I've heard skull from 85 on...  That being said if you think in your mind he's singing soul... it sounds like soul.   If you think he's singing skull... it sounds like skull.  To me skull makes more sense cuz after his skull is cut with that knife, he's got a big ole headache with that freight train running through his head. 

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Oats

Desa, I think that's how he wrote it.  When he heard skull and figured it fit better or sounded better.  He started singing it that way.  I prefer skull but either one works for me. 

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