Thunder Road Chords & Tabs
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THUNDER ROAD - Bruce Springsteen
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Transcribed by Dan Morris (dmorris@cs.stanford.edu)
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Capo 1
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Intro:
E A E A
E g#m A B
E A E
A screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
A
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
B E A
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only
E B
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
E A E
Don't run back inside, darlin, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that
A
Maybe we ain't that young any more
B
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
E A
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right
E B
Oh and that's alright with me
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bruce_springsteen/thunder_road_crd_ver_2.html ]
E c#m
You can hide beneath your covers and study your pain,
E A
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
E g#m A B
Waste your summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets
E c#m
Well now I'm no hero that's understood
E A
All the redemption I can offer girl is beneath this dirty hood
E g#m A B
With a chance to make it good somehow hey what else can we do now except
E A E
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
g#m A
Well the night's busting open these two lanes can take us anywhere
B
We got one last chance to make it real
E A
to trade in these wings on some wheels
E B
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
E c#m E A
Oh come take my hand We're ridin out tonight to case the promised land
E g#m A B
Oh oh thunder Road, oh thunder road, oh thunder road
E A/C#
Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun
E A
Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run
E g#m A B E
Oh oh thunder road, sit tight, take hold, thunder road
A B E
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
c#m A B
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
A B
From your front porch to my front seat
g#m c#m
Door's open but the ride ain't free
A A/G# f#m E
Well I know you're hunry for words that I ain't spoken
B
Well tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
E A E
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
E g#m
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of
A
burned-out Chevrolets
B
They scream your name at night in the street
E A
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
g#m A
And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on
A B A f#m
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind so Mary climb in
A B E
It's a town full of losers I'm pulling out of here to win
Outro:
E B E A
E B A B
E B E A
E B
A A/G# A/F# A/E
B B/A B/G# B/F#
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Dan Morris
dmorris@cs.stanford.edu
http://techhouse.brown.edu/dmorris
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