Key: F major
Intro 1
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F#m
Bm
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G
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F#m
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A
Verse 1
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A
A screen door slams,
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Mary's dress sways
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A
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Like a vision she dances across the porch
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As the radio plays
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Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
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G
Hey, that's me, and I want you on ly
Don't turn me home again
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I just can't face
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myself alone again
Verse 2
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Don't run back inside darling
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You know just what I'm here for
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So you're scared and you're thinking
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That maybe we ain't that young anymore
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A
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
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You ain't a beauty
G
but, hey, you're alright
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A
Oh, and that's alright with me
Verse 3
D
You can hide 'neath your covers
Bm
and study your pain
D
Make crosses from your lovers,
G
throw roses in the rain
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F#m
Waste your summer praying in vain
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A
For a sa vior to rise from these streets
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Bm
Well I'm no hero, that's understood
D
All the redemption I can offer, girl
G
Is beneath this dirty hood
D
F#m
With a chance to make it good somehow
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A
Hey, what else can we do now?
Verse 4
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Except roll down the window
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D
And let the wind blow back your hair
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Well, the night's busting open
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G
These two lanes will take us anywhere
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A
We got one last chance to make it real
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G
To trade in these wings on some wheels
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Climb in back,
D
heaven's waiting down
A
on the tracks
Verse 5
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Bm
Oh-oh, come take my hand
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G
We're riding out tonight to
case the promised land
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F#m
Oh-oh, Thunder Road
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A
Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
D
Bm
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
D
G
Hey, I know it's late, we can
make it if we run
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F#m
Oh-oh, Thunder Road
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A
Sit tight, take hold
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Thunder Road
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Well, I got
Bridge 1
this guitar
A
D
And I learned how to make it talk
Bm
And my car's out back
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A
If you're ready to take that long walk
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A
From your front porch to my front seat
F#m
Bm
The door's open but the ride ain't free
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F#m
And I know you're lonely for words that
Em
G
I ain't spoken
A
Tonight we'll be free,
all the promises'll be broken
Verse 6
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There were ghosts in the eyes
G
D
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
F#m
On the skeleton frames
G
of burned out Chevrolets
G
A
They scream your name at night in the street
D
G
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
F#m
And in the lonely cool before dawn
G
You hear their engines roaring on
Em
When you get to the porch
A
G
They're gone on the wind
Em
So Mary, climb in
G
It's a town full of losers
A
D
I'm pulling out of here to win
Outro 1
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Em
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[fade out]
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