Key: B major•
Intro 1
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E
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F#
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Verse 1
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E
F#
B
The screen door slams,
E
B
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the
E
B
E
porch as the radio plays
F#
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
B
E
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again,
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I just can't face myself alone again
B
Don't run back inside, darling,
you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that
E
maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith,
F#
there's magic in the night
B
You ain't a beauty but, hey,
E
you're alright
Oh, and that's alright with me
F#
Verse 2
B
E
B
You can hide 'neath your covers
E
and study your pain
B
Make crosses from your lovers,
E
throw roses in the rain
B
Waste your summer praying in vain
E
F#
For a savior to rise from these streets
B
Well now, I ain't no hero,
E
that's understood
B
All the redemption I can offer,
E
girl, is beneath this dirty hood
B
With a chance to make it good somehow
E
F#
Hey, what else can we do now?
B
E
Except roll down the window and let
B
the wind blow back your hair
Well, the night's busting open,
E
these two lanes will take us anywhere
F#
We got one last chance to make it real
B
To trade in these wings
E
on some wheels
Climb in back,
F#
B
heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Verse 3
Oh oh, come take my hand
E
We're riding out tonight to case
B
the promised land
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
E
F#
Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
B
E
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
B
Hey, I know it's late,
E
B
we can make it if we run
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
E
F#
B
Sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road
Verse 4
E
F#
Well, I got this guitar and I learned
B
E
how to make it talk
F#
G#m
And my car's out back if you're
F#
ready to take that long walk
E
From your front porch to
F#
my front seat
G#m
The door's open but the ride ain't free
F#
And I know you're lonely for words
that I ain't spoken
E
But tonight we'll be free,
F#
B
all the promises'll be broken
Verse 5
E
There were ghosts in the eyes of
B
all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton
E
frames of burned- out Chevrolets
B
E
They scream your name at night
F#
in the street
B
Your graduation gown lies
E
in rags at their feet
G#m
And in the lonely cool before dawn
F#
You hear their engines rolling on
E
But when you get to the porch,
F#
E
they're gone on the wind
F#
So Mary, climb in
E
F#
It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win
Outro 1
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F#
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F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F# G#m
B
E
F#
G#m
Capo: 4
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