Riders On The Storm Chords

Song:     Riders On The Storm
Artists:  The Doors
Album:    The Greatest Hits: The Doors, 1980/1996
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx6gULYNbc;
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_%28The_Doors_album%29
Tempo:    4|4
Tuning:   Standard
 
Chords:
          EADGBe
Em        022000
A         X02220
Am        X02210
Bm7/A     X04232
C6/A      X05553
D/A       X00232
D         XX0232
C         X32010
Em7       020000
Em9       020002
 
 
INTRO:(Rain & Thunder over)
|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|
|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|(Keyboards & Bass over)
|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|Em  A|
|Em  A|
 
 
CHORUS 1:
Em            A     Em A
Riders on the storm,
Em            A     Em A
Riders on the storm.
  Am                  Bm7/A  C6/A  D/A
Into this house we're born,
  Em                    A    Em A
Into this world we're thrown.
       D
Like a dog without a bone,
   C
An actor out on loan.
Em            A      Em7 A
Riders on the storm.
 
 
VERSE 1:
          Em        A        Em7 A
There's a killer on the road,
             Em             A      Em7 A
His brain is squirmin' like a toad.
     Am         Bm7/A  C6/A  D/A
Take a long holiday,
Em                A    Em7 A
Let your children play.
       D
If you give this man a ride,
      C
Sweet family will die.
Em        A              Em7 A
Killer on the road, yeah.
 
 
BRIDGE 1:(Lead over)
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
 
 
VERSE 2:
          Em         A         Em7 A
Girl, you gotta love your man,
          Em         A         Em7 A
Girl, you gotta love your man.
Am              Bm7/A  C6/A  D/A
Take him by the hand,
Em                A    Em7 A
Make him understand.
    D
The world on you depends,
    C
Our life will never end.
Em         A         Em7 A
Gotta love your man, yeah.
 
 
BRIDGE 2:(Keyboards & Bass over)
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Rain & Thunder)
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
 
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Rain & Thunder)
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Keyboard trills)
 
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Keyboard over)
 
 
CHORUS 2:(Drum roll-in)
Em            A     Em A
Riders on the storm,
Em            A     Em A
Riders on the storm.
  Am                  Bm7/A  C6/A  D/A
Into this house we're born,
  Em                    A    Em A
Into this world we're thrown.
       D
Like a dog without a bone,
   C
An actor out on loan.
Em            A
Riders on the storm.
 
 
BRIDGE 3:
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
 
 
CODA:
Em9    A      Em9
Riders on the storm,
Em9    A      Em9
Riders on the storm.
Em9    A      Em9
Riders on the storm,
Em9    A      Em9
Riders on the storm.
 
 
BRIDGE 4:(Keyboards over)
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Rain & Thunder)
 
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|
|Em   A|Em7  A|(Diminuative Vibrato Lead over)
|Em   A|Em7  A|[Fade Out]
 
 
[End]
 
 
NOTES:
1.  “…As it says in Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis, in 1962, while Jim was attending
Florida State University in Tallahassee, he was seeing a girl named Mary Werbelow who lived in Clearwater,
280 miles away. Jim would oftentimes hitchhike to see her. "Those solitary journeys on hot and dusty
Florida two-lane blacktop roads, with his thumb out and his imagination on fire with lust and poetry
and Nietzsche and God knows what else - taking chances on redneck truckers, fugitive homos, and predatory
cruisers - left an indelible psychic scar on Jimmy, whose notebooks began to obsessively feature scrawls
and drawings of a lone hitchhiker, an existential traveler, faceless and dangerous, a drifting stranger
with violent fantasies, a mystery tramp: the killer on the road.”…”
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=273
2.  Ray Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008
album "Ballads Before the Rain".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm
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