Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Guitar)

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The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves

                         C                       Bb
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

                             C
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely

           F                  Bb
Hey that's me and I want you only

                            F                 C
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

       F                       Bb                     F
Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
     C                    Bb
That maybe we ain't that young anymore

                                          C
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

            F                        Bb
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright

       F                 C
Oh and it's alright with me

        F                          Dm
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain

     F                               Bb
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain

 F                 Am
Waste your summer praying in vain

       Bb                         C
For a savior to rise from these streets

             F                     Dm
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood

         F                                Bb
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood

        F                Am
With a chance to make it good somehow

     Bb                 C
Hey what else can we do now?

        F                       Bb                F             Bb F
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open
      Am                     Bb
These two lanes will take us anywhere

                                  C
We got one last chance to make it real

    F                            Bb
To trade in these wings on some wheels

              F                     C
Climb in back heaven's waiting down on the tracks

F         Dm
Oh oh come take my hand

       F                     Bb
We’re riding out tonight to case the promised land

F        Am               Bb               C
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road,

F                      Dm
Lying out there like a killer in the sun

    F                   Bb
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run

F        Am                   Bb         C             F
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road

F    Am Bb                    C                      F  
Well I  got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk

       Dm                                          Bb   C
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk

          Bb                      C
From your front porch to my front seat

           Am                         Dm
The door's open but the ride it ain't free

    Bb            Bb/A                  Gm      F
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken

      C              Bb            Am             Gm
But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken

           F                     Bb               F        Bb F
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
       Am                 Bb
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

                                      C
They scream your name at night in the street

                 F                         Bb
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet and in the

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Lonely cool before   dawn you hear their engines roaring on   but when you

GM                       C 
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Get to the porch they're gone on the 

Bb  
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wind                  So Mary climbed 

Gm 
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in                 It’s a 

     Bb                      C                      F 
Town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.
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