G C G
A screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
F C G
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
C G F C
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me babe and I want you only
G C G
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
G C G
Don't run back inside, darlin, you know just what I'm here for
F
So you're scared and you're thinking that
C G
Maybe we ain't that young any more
C G
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
F C
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right
G D
Oh and that's alright with me
G C/G D
You can hide beneath 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 savior to rise from these streets
G C/G D
Well now I'm no hero that's understood
G C
All the redemption I can offer girl is beneath this dirty hood
G D C D
With a chance to make it good somehow hey what else can we do now except
G C G
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
D C
Well the night's busting open these two lanes can take us anywhere
D
We got one last chance to make it real
G C
to trade in these wings on some wheels
G D
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
G C/G D C
Oh come take my hand We're ridin out tonight to case the promised land
G G#m C D
Oh oh thunder Road, oh thunder road, oh thunder road
G C/G D
Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun
G C
Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run
G G#m C D G
Oh oh thunder road, sit tight, take hold, thunder road
Em C G
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
G C 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
Door's open but the ride ain't free
D C/G F G
Well I know you're hunry for words that I ain't spoken
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D
Well tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
G C G
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
G D
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of
C
burned-out Chevrolets
D
They scream your name at night in the street
F C
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
G G/C D C
And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on
G D C Am
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind so Mary climb in
C D G
It's a town full of losers I'm pulling out of here to win