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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5 Version 6 Version 7 Version 8----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THUNDER ROAD - Bruce Springsteen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed by Dan Morris () ------ Capo 1 ------ [Intro] E A E A E G#m A B [Verse] 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 [Verse] 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 [Verse] 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 [Verse] 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 [Verse] 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 [Verse] 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#