Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road Chords

[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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The screen door slams, Chrissie's dress sways
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Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
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Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
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Hey that's me babe and I want you only
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Don't turn me home again
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I just can't face myself alone again tonight
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Don't run back inside, baby you know just what I'm here for
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So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
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Woah and there's magic in the night
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You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
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And that's alright with me


[Verse 2]

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You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
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Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
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Waste your summer praying in vain for a saviour to rise from these streets
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Well I ain't no hero, that's understood
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All the redemption I can offer, babe is beneath this old hood
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With one last chance to make it good somehow
     C                  D
Hey what else can we do now
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Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
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Well the night's bustin' open and these two lanes will take us anywhere
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We got one last chance to make it real
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To trade in these wings for some wheels
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Climb in back, it's waiting down on the tracks


[Verse 3]

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When I try hard Chrissie to understand
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I'm riding out tonight to case the promised land
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Baby if you're born with nothing in your hands
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Hey it's your only chance
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Well it's lying out there like a killer in the sun
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Yeah I know it's late but we can make it if we run
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Oh I wish you could come
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So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old on Thunder Road

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Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
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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
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Hey the door's open but the ride it ain't free
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Climb In


[Verse 4]

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Well there were ghosts in the eyes of the boys that you sent away
G                                         D                           C
They haunt this dirty beach road in the skeleton remains of burnt out Chevrolets
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They scream to you at night from the street
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Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
           G                  D
And in the lonely cool before dawn
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From your room you hear their engines roar on
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But when you get to the porch they're gone, lost in the wind, so Chrissie climb in
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It's a town full of losers and I'm pullin' outta here to win


[Outro]

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