CAPO @ 3RD FRET
Intro: (one strum per 4 count)
D Bm D G
D F#m G A
Verse:
D G D D
The screen door slams, Mary”s dress waves
F#m F#m G G
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
G A
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
D G
Hey that”s me and I want you only
G D A A
Don”t turn me home again, I just can”t face myself alone again
D G D D
Don”t run back inside, darling you know just what I”m here for
D
So you”re scared and you”re thinking
A G G
That maybe we ain”t that young anymore
G A
Show a little faith, there”s magic in the night
D G G
You ain”t a beauty, but hey you”re alright
D A A
Oh and that”s alright with me
Chorus:
D Bm
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
D G
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
D F#m
Waste your summer praying in vain
G A
For a saviour to rise from these streets
D Bm
Well now I”m no hero, that”s understood
D G
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
D F#m
With a chance to make it good somehow
G A
Hey what else can we do now? Except
Verse:
D G D |G D – -|
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
D
Well the night”s busting open
F#m G G
These two lanes will take us anywhere
G A
We got one last chance to make it real
D G
To trade in these wings on some wheels
D D A A
Climb in back heaven”s waiting down on the tracks
Chorus:
D Bm
Oh oh come take my hand
D G
We’re riding out tonight to case the promised land
D F#m G A
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, 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
D F#m G A D
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road
Bridge:
G A D D
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
Bm Bm G A
And my car”s out back if you”re ready to take that long walk
G A
From your front porch to my front seat
F#m Bm
The door”s open but the ride it ain”t free
G G
And I know you”re lonely for words that I ain”t spoken
A A
But tonight we”ll be free, all the promises”ll be broken
Verse:
D G D |G D–|
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
D
They haunt this dusty beach road
F#m G G
In the skeleton frames 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 and in the
F#m F#m G G
Lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on but when you
Em A G G
Get to the porch they”re gone on the wind
Em Em
So Mary climb in
G A D D
It”s a town full of losers and I”m pulling out of here to win
Outro: (repeat out)
D A D G
D A G A