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