Thunder Road

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[Verse 1]
C    F           C7/F F
 The screen door slams
Bb/F C7/F Bb/F     F   C7/Bb
     Ma__ry's dress sways   
F
C7/F       F          C7/F  F C
    Like a vision she dances across the porch
   B   Bb
As the radio plaays
Bb/F    Bb      C       Bb/D    C
    Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
           F      C7/F     F     Bb
Hey that's me and I   want you only
      C/Bb    Bb    F/Bb
Don't turn me home again
C/Bb F          C/F  Dm    C Bb/C
I    just can't face myself alone again
C Cadd9 C C7/G  F          C7/F
          Don't run back inside
F       Bb/F     C7/F      Bb/F    F C7/Bb
Darling you know just what I'm here  for  
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C7/F          F          C7/F
    So you're scared and you're thinking
F    C                  B Bb
That maybe we ain't that  young an ymore
Bb/F              Bb
    Show a little faith,
        C     Bb/D    C
there's magic in  the night
            F
You ain't a beauty,
    C7/F       F  Bb   C/Bb
but hey you're al right
Bb
F/Bb  C/Bb    F        C7          C  Bb/C
    Oh    and that's al  right with me
C Bb/C
F/C C7      F
    You can hide 'neath your covers

[Verse 2]
    Dm
And study your pain
     F
Make cros ses from your lo vers
      Bb
Throw ro ses in the rain
F                  Am
 Waste your summer praying in vain
      Bb                        Bb/C
For a savior to rise from these streets
         F
Well now I'm no hero
            Dm
That's understood
          F
All the redemption I can offer girl
   Bb
Is beneath this dirty hood
F                         Am
 With a chance to make it good some how
    Bb                  C7
Hey what else can we do now

[Pre-Chorus]
       F
Except roll down the window
    Bb                F             Bb
And let the wind blow back your hair
F                                   F/E
 Well the night's busting open These
Am                     Bb  C/Bb Bb
two lanes will take us a ny     where
   C/Bb Bb                         C
We got  one last chance to make it real
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To trade in these wings on some wheels
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  Climb in    back
    C/E          Dm     C    C/Bb  Am7 C7
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks

[Chorus]
F          Dm
Oh oh come take my hand
F                     Bb
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
F           Am
Ohoh oh oh, oh Thunder Road,
Bb
oh Thunder Road
C
Oh Thunder Road

[Verse 3]
F                       Dm
 Lying out there like a killer in the sun
F
Hey I know it's late,
       Bb
we can make it if we run
F     Am
Oh Oh Thun der Road,
         Bb         C
sit tight  take hold
             F
Thun der Road
          Bb Bb
Well I got   this guitar

[Bridge]
              C           C/Bb    F   Bb/F
And I learned how to make it  talk And
F   Am    Dm
 my car's out back
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If you're ready to take that lo      ong walk
C               Bb
From your front porch to my front seat
C               Am
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
Dm         Bb
And I know you're lonely
    Am                 Gm        F
For words that I ain't spoken But
               Csus4
to night we'll be   free
             C
All the promi ses 'll be broken
                  F
There were ghosts in the eyes

[Verse 4]
       Bb                F         Bb
Of all the boys you sent a way They
F
 haunt this dusty beach road
       F/E Am                    Bb        C/Bb Bb
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
     C/Bb   Bb
They scream your name at night in the street
C                    F       F/G          F/A Bb
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their    feet
           F   A5
And in the lonely cool before dawn

[Interlude]
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You hear their engines roaring on
                 Gm    F      C/E     Dm  C Bb
But when you get to the porch they're gone
Am          Bb                 Gm
On the wind,  so Ma ry climb in
            Bb
It's a town full of losers
          C                      F
AndI'm pulling out of here to win

[Outro]
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