Thunder Road Acoustic Chords

Thunder Road [acoustic take]
Bruce Springsteen
This version of 'Thunder Road' was recorded in 1975 during the 'Born To Run'
studio sessions. This take is a solo acoustic version with some lyrical
differences. It is a haunting take that surprisingly isn't tabbed.
 
 
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
G                     C               G        Gsus4 G
The screen door slams, Chrissie's dress sways
        F                  C                      G           Gsus4 G
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
     F                        C
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
          F                        C
Hey that's me babe and I want you only
              G
Don't turn me home again
   C                       G
I just can't face myself alone again tonight
        G                     C                    G         Gsus4  G
Don't run back inside, baby you know just what I'm here for
           F                                                  C         G
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
                  C             G
Woah and there's magic in the night
             F                         C
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
              D
And that's alright with me
 
[Verse 2]
        G                               D
You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
      G                               C
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
G                  D                     C                          D
Waste your summer praying in vain for a saviour to rise from these streets
        G                      C
Well I ain't no hero, that's understood
          G                               C
All the redemption I can offer, babe is beneath this old hood
G                               D
With one last chance to make it good somehow
     C                    D
Hey what else can you do now
        G                       C                  G             Gsus4  G
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
G                                      D                       C
Well the night's bustin' open and these two lanes will take us anywhere
C                                 D
We got one last chance to make it real
    G                            C
To trade in these wings for some wheels
G                                 D
Climb in back, it's waiting down on the tracks
 
[Verse 3]
       G                       D
When I try hard Chrissie to understand
      G                           C
I'm riding out tonight to case the promised land
G                          D
Baby if you're born with nothing in your hands
C                   D
Hey it's your only chance
          G                 C     D
Well it's lying out there like a killer in the sun
    G                            C                   G
Yeah I know it's late but we can make it if we run
G                    D
Oh I wish you could come
   C                                         D              G
So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old on Thunder Road
 
[Bridge]
        Em                            C
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
        G                                         D
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
           C                      D
From your front porch to my front seat
                G                         C          D
Hey the door's open but the ride it ain't free 
 
[Verse 4]
                  G                       C               G        Gsus4  G
Well there were ghosts in the eyes of the boys that you sent away
G                                         D                           C
They haunt this dirty beach road in the skeleton remains of burnt out Chevrolets
C                                    D
They scream to you at night from the street
                 F                        C
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
           G                  D
And in the lonely cool before dawn
                   G           C           D
From your room you hear their engines roar on
              G          G/C           C                   D                    Am
But when you get to the porch they're gone, lost in the wind, so Chrissie climb in
        C                          D                      G
It's a town full of losers and I'm pullin' outta here to win
 
[Outro]
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