Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road guitar tab

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

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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