Chords Used:
(E): 022100
(A): 002220
(B): 224432
(Dm): 000231
(G#m): 466444
E A
The screen door slams
E
Mary's dress waves
B
Like a vision she dances across the porch
A
As the radio plays
B
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
E A
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
E B
I just can't face myself alone again
E
Don't run back inside
A E
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
B A
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
B
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
E A
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
E B
Oh and that's alright with me
E
You can hide 'neath your covers
B
And study your pain
E
Make crosses from your lovers
A
Throw roses in the rain
E B
Waste your summer praying in vain
A B
For a savior to rise from these streets
E
Well now I'm no hero
A
That's understood
E
All the redemption I can offer, girl
A
Is beneath this dirty hood
E B
With a chance to make it good somehow
A B
Hey what else can we do now
E
Except roll down the window
A E
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open
B A
These two lanes will take us anywhere
B
We got one last chance to make it real
E A
To trade in these wings on some wheels
E
Climb in back
B
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
E A
Oh oh come take my hand
A E
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
E A
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
B
oh Thunder Road
E A
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
E A E
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
E A B
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold
E
Thunder Road
A
Well I got this guitar
B E
And I learned how to make it talk
A
And my car's out back
A B
If you're ready to take that long walk
A B
From your front porch to my front seat
G#m A
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
A
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
B
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
E
There were ghosts in the eyes
A R
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
B A
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
B
They scream your name at night in the street
E A
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
A
And in the lonely cool before dawn
A
You hear their engines roaring on
Dm B
But when you get to the porch they're gone
B Dm
On the wind, so Mary climb in
A
It's a town full of losers
B E
And I'm pulling out of here to win.