taken from greasylake.org

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen


[Intro]

F Dm F Bb F Am Bb C
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B|------1--|--3-1---1-3--|--------1------|-----------|------1--|--3-1---1--|--3-1---1--|--3-1---1--|
G|----2----|------2------|------2---2-3--|--3-2------|----2----|------2----|------2----|------2----|
D|--3------|-------------|--3-3----------|------3-5--|--3------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
A|---------|-------------|---------------|-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
E|---------|-------------|---------------|-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|-----------|

F Bb F
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 C7 C
Oh and that's alright with me e|----------|-----|
B|----------|-----|
G|-------9vvvvvv--|
D|----------|-----|
A|--8>10----|-----|
E|----------|-----|
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 C7
For a saviour 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 C7
Hey what else can we do now?
F Bb F
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

Well the night's busting open
Am Bb
This 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 C7
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 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 C7 F
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road


Bb C Bb F Bb F
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk e|----------------|--------|
B|----------------|--------|
G|------3---------|--3-----|
D|------3----5----|--3-----|
A|--3/5----5---5--|--------|
E|----------------|--------|

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 Gm Bb
And I know you're lonely and there's words that I ain't spoken
C
But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken
F Bb F
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road
C 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
Am Bb
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B|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
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D|------2------2-----|------2------2-----|------3------3------|------3------3------|
A|--0-0--------------|--0-0--------------|--1-1---------------|--1-1---------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
Lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on but when you

Gm C
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B|------------------------|-----------------------------|
G|------------------------|-----------------------------|
D|--5--3--3--2--2---------|-----------------------------|
A|------------------5--5--|--3--3--1--1-----------------|
E|------------------------|--------------5--5--5--3--0--|
Get to the porch they're gone on the

Bb
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B|----------------3----|----6---6---------|
G|--3-------3—----3----|--5>7---7<5-------|
D|--3-------3—-5--3----|------------------|
A|--1—-3/5-------------|------------------|
E|---------------------|------------------|
wind So Mary climed

Gm
e|------------------|----------------|
B|------------------|----------------|
G|---------------3--|--3/5---3-------|
D|--5------------3--|--3/5---3-------|
A|--5-------1/5--3--|--3/5---3-------|
E|--3—-1/3----------|----------------|
in It’s a

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

F C F Bb F C Bb C
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E|-1----------|-----|--1----------|------1-3--|--1----------|--------3--|--3-1-1--|----3-3--|

F C F Bb F C
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A|--3-1--|--0----|
E|-------|----3--|

F C F Bb F C Bb C
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F C F Bb F C Bb
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E|-1----------|-----|--1----------|------1-3--|--1----------|--------3--|--3-1-1--| repeat to fade out


F Bb C Dm Am C7 Gm
e|--1--1--0--1--0--0--3--|
B|--1--3--1--2--1--3--3--|
G|--2--3--0--3--2--0--3--|
D|--3--3--2--0--2--2--5--|
A|--3--1--3-----0--3--5--|
E|--1-----------------3--|



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