Bruce Springsteen - The Promise Chords

[Intro]
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G C G C

[Verse]
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Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown
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Terry works in a rock and roll band looking for that million-dollar sound
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And I got a little job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go
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Some nights I go to the drive-in or some nights I stay home
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I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the screen
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And I drove a Challenger down Route 9 through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
              D                                               G           D
And when the promise was broken, I cashed in a few of my own dreams

[Verse]
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Well now I built that Challenger by myself, but I needed money and so I sold it
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I lived a secret I should've kept to myself, but I got drunk one night and I told it
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All my life I fought this fight, the fight that no man can ever win
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Every day it just gets harder to live this dream I'm believing in
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Thunder Road,    oh baby you were so right
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Thunder Road,    there's something dying down on the highway tonight

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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I won big once and I hit the coast, oh but somehow I paid the big cost
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Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits of all the other ones who lost
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When the promise is broken you go on living, but it steals something from down in your soul
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Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference, something in your heart turns cold
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Thunder Road,    for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
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Thunder Road,    for the tires rushing by in the rain
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Thunder Road,    remember what me and Billy we'd always say
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Thunder Road,    we were gonna take it all then threw it all away

[Outro]
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