Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves

 Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

 Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only

 Don't send me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

 Don't run back inside, darlin' , you know just what I'm here for

 So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young any more

 Show a little faith, there's magic in the night,

 You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright

 Oh and that's alright with me

 You can hide neath your covers and study your pain

 Make crosses from your lovers throw roses at the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain, for a saviour to rise from these streets

 Well now I'm no hero, that's understood

 All the redemption I got to offer girl is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it real somehow, hey what else can we do now

 Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

 Well the night's busting open these two lanes will take us anywhere

 We got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels

 Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks

Oh oh come take my hand, riding out tonight to case the Promised Land

Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder road, oh Thunder Road

Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun

 Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run

Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

 (/ /F#)

 Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk

 And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk

 From your front porch to my front seat,

 The door's open but the ride it ain't free

And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken

 But tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken

 There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

 They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets

 They scream your name at night in the street,

 Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on

 But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind

 So Mary climb in,

 It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win Dsus4 D