F( D ) Bb(G ) F(D ) F4(D4)
The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
F(D ) C(A ) Bb(G )
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
C(A ) F(D ) Bb(G )
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only
F(D ) C( A ) ( A4 )(A )
Don't send me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
F( D ) Bb(G ) F(D ) F4 ( D4 )
Don't run back inside, darlin' , you know just what I'm here for
F(D ) C(A ) Bb(G )
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young any more
C(A )
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night,
F(D ) Bb(G )
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
F(D ) C( A ) C4(A4) C(A )
Oh and that's alright with me
F(D ) Dm(Bm ) Dm4(Bm4)
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
F(D ) Bb(G )
Make crosses from your lovers throw roses at the rain
F(D ) C( A ) Bb(G ) C(A )
Waste your summer praying in vain, for a saviour to rise from these streets
F(D ) Dm(Bm ) Dm4( B4 )
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood
F(D ) Bb(G )
All the redemption I got to offer girl is beneath this dirty hood
F(D ) C( A ) Bb(G ) C(A )
With a chance to make it real somehow, hey what else can we do now
F( D ) Bb(G ) F(D ) F4(D4)
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
F(D ) C(A ) Bb(G )
Well the night's busting open these two lanes will take us anywhere
C(A ) F(D ) Bb(G )
We got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels
F(D ) C(A )
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
F( D ) Dm(Bm ) F(D ) Bb(G )
Oh oh come take my hand, riding out tonight to case the Promised Land
F(D ) C( A ) Bb(G ) C(A )
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder road, oh Thunder Road
F(D ) Dm(Bm )
Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun
F(D ) Bb(G )
Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run
F( D ) C( A ) Bb(G ) C(A ) F(D ) F4(D4)
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road
(/E /F# )
Bb(G ) C(A ) F(D ) F4(D4)
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
Dm(Bm ) Bb(G ) C(A )
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
Bb(G ) C(A )
From your front porch to my front seat,
F(D ) Bb(G )
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
Bb(G )
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
C(A )
But tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
F( D ) Bb(G ) F(D ) F4(D4)
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
F(D ) C(A ) Bb(G )
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
C(A )
They scream your name at night in the street,
F(D ) Bb(G )
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
Bb(G )
And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on
C(A ) Bb(G )
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind
Gm ( Em )
So Mary climb in,
Bb(G ) C(A ) F(D ) F4 F
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win (D4) (D)
