Thunder Road Chords

Capo on the 3rd fret.
 
 
[Intro]
 
Strum D
then
e|-------|
B|-------|
G|-----2-|
D|-0-4---|
A|-------|
E|-------|
 
Strum B minor
then
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|-4-2---2-4-|
D|-----4-----|
A|-----------|
E|-----------|
 
Strum D
then
e|---------|
B|---------|
G|-----2---|
D|-0-4---4-|
A|---------|
E|---------|
 
Strum top three strings of G
then
e|-------|
B|-0-----|
G|-------|
D|---0-2-|
A|-------|
E|-------|
 
 
Strum D  A  G
 
 
-The Song-
 
    D                G
The screen door slams
       D
Mary's dress waves
                         A
Like a vision she dances across the porch
       G
As the radio plays
                            A
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
           D                 G
Hey that's me and I want you only
 
Don't turn me home again
  D                      A
I just can't face myself alone again
      D
Don't run back inside
        G                      D
darling you know just what I'm here for
 
So you're scared and you're thinking
     A                   G
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
                                                 A
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
            D                        G
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
       D                   A
Oh and that's alright with me
 
 
        D
You can hide 'neath your covers
    A
And study your pain
     D
Make crosses from your lovers
G
Throw roses in the rain
D                  A
Waste your summer praying in vain
      G                            A
For a savior to rise from these streets
         D
Well now I'm no hero
       Bm
That's understood
         D
All the redemption I can offer, girl
   G
Is beneath this dirty hood
D                          A
With a chance to make it good somehow
    G                   A
Hey what else can we do now
       D
Except roll down the window
    G                      D
And let the wind blow back your hair
 
Well the night's busting open
      A                       G
These two lanes will take us anywhere
                                  A
We got one last chance to make it real
   D                                G
To trade in these wings on some wheels
         D
Climb in back
                             A
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
 
 
D                Bm
Oh oh come take my hand
D                      G                     D
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
   A                    G
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
A
oh Thunder Road
D                       Bm
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
    D                         G                        D
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
  A                     G          A
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold
        D
Thunder Road
 
 
       G
Well I got this guitar
      A                         D
And I learned how to make it talk
       Bm
And my car's out back
                             G    A
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
And I know you're lonely
 
For words that I ain't spoken
    A
But tonight we'll be free
 
All the promises'll be broken
           D
There were ghosts in the eyes
   G                    D
Of all the boys you sent away
 
They haunt this dusty beach road
       A                  G
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
     A
They scream your name at night in the street
                D                           G
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
           Bm
And in the lonely cool before dawn
               G
You hear their engines roaring on
             Em                              A
But when you get to the porch they're gone
       G                   Em
On the wind, so Mary climb in
       G
It's a town full of losers
        A                           D
And I'm pulling out of here to win.
 
 
[Outro]
 
D (1 and a half seconds) G (half a second / a strum) A (for 2 seconds)
 
In quick session of one another play:
 
D  G  A  Bm  G  A
 
then play D   Bm   G    A
 
Repeat this outro once more
then finish with D and at the last few strums hammer your finger onto the e string at the 3rd fret
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