D Bm  D G  D F#m  G  A  

    D                 G        D
The screen door slams,  Mary's dress sways.
                          A                      G
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays.
                            A
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely,
           D                 G
hey that's me and I want you only.
                            D                 A
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again.

      D                        G                      D       G D
Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for.

So you're scared and you're thinking
     A                   G
that maybe we ain't that young anymore.
                                          A
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night,
            D                        G
you ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright.
        D                   A
Oh, and that's alright with me.

        D                          Bm
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain,
     D                               G
make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain.
D                 F#m
Waste your summer praying in vain,
      G                          A
for a saviour to rise from these streets.
             D                    Bm
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood,
        D                                  G
all the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood.
       D                 F#m
With a chance to make it good somehow,
    G                   A
hey what else can we do now?
 
        D                        G                 D             G D
Except, roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.

Well the night's busting open,
      F#m                    G
these two lanes will take us anywhere.
                                  A
We got one last chance to make it real,
   D                            G
to trade in these wings on some wheels.
              D                     A
Climb in back heaven's waiting down on the tracks.

D          Bm
Oh oh come take my hand,
      D                     G
we're riding out tonight to case the promised land.
D        F#m              G                A
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road.
D                      Bm
Lying out there like a killer in the sun,
    D                   G
hey I know it's late we can make it if we run.
D        F#m                  G          A             D
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road.

D        G                     A                      D  
Well, I  got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
       Bm                                          G    A
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk.
          G                       A
From your front porch to my front seat,
           F#m                        Bm
the door's open but the ride it ain't free.
    G                                   Em      
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken,
      A              
but tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken.
           D                     G                D        G D
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away.

They haunt this dusty beach road,
       F#m                G
in the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets.
                                      A
They scream your name at night in the street,
                D                          G
your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet. And in the
F#m                                     G
Lonely cool before dawn, you hear their engines roaring on, but when you
Em                       A           G              Em       (Em A G)
get to the porch they're gone on the wind - so Mary climb in.
       G                           A                      D
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win

D  A   D  G  
D  A   G G G  A A A  5x Alternates:

Open

D   = F
Bm  = Dm
G   = Bb
A   = C
F#m = Am
Em  = Gm

Capo I

D   = E
Bm  = C#m
G   = A
A   = B
F#m = G#m
Em  = F#m

Capo V

D   = C
Bm  = Am
G   = F
A   = G
F#m = Em
Em  = Dm

Open (These chords are not in the original key)

D   = A
Bm  = F#m
G   = D
A   = E
F#m = C#m
Em  = Bm

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