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Standard Tuning EADGBe Play it with a capo on the first fret to sound like the studio version or without for the live version. Intro: ---------------- ------0-----2-0---0-2-----------0-------------------------0-----2-0---0-----2-0---0-----2-0---0 ----1-----------1-------------1---1-2-----2-1-----------1-----------1-----------1-----------1-- --2-------------------------2-----------------2-4-----2---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------- Verse 1:
EThe screen door slams,A Mary's drEess waves like a vision shedancesacrosBstheporchastheradio Aplays Roy Orbison singing for the Blonely, hey that's Eme and I want you Aonly Don't turn me home again I Ejust can't face mByself alone again
EDontrunbackinsidedarlingukAnowjustwhatImhereEforyourescarednethinkinthatmaybeweaintthBatyunganymre A Show a little faith, there's magic in the nBight You ain't a Ebeauty, but hey you're Aalright Oh and that's Ealright with Bme
Verse 2:
You can Ehideneath your covers n studC#my your pain makecrosseEs fromyour loversthrow rosAesintherain EWaste your summer pG#mraying in vain for a sAavior to rise from these sB7treets
Well nowE I'm no herothats underC#mstood AlltheredemptionE I can offer girl isbeneaththiAs dirty hood EWith a chance to make it gG#mood somehow Hey whatA else can we do B7now?
Verse 3:
Except Eroll down the window and Alet the wind blow Eback your hair Well the night's bustin' open, these Btwo lanes will take us Aanywhere We got one last chance to make it reaBl To tErade in these wings on some Awheels Climb in back, heaEven's waiting down onB the tracks
Verse 4: [same chords as verse 2]
OhE oh come taC#mke my hand rEiding out tonight to Acase the promised land EOh oh oh G#moh thunder road, Aoh thunder road,B7 oh thunder road ELying out there like aC#m killer in the sun, hey IE know it's late, we can Amake it if we run EOh oh oh oh thunderG#m road, sit Atight, take B7hold, thunder Eroad
Verse 5:
Well I Agot this guitar&amBp;amp;I learned how to Emake itC#m talk & my cars out back if youreA ready B to take that long walk From your Afront porch to my frontB seat, the door'sG#m open but the ride it ain't frC#mee And I Aknow you're lonely forF#m words that I ain't spoken, toBnight we'll be free all the promises will be broken
Verse 6:
There were Eghosts in the eyes of allA the boys you sEent away They haunt this dusty beach road in the sBkeleton frames of bAurned-out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the streeBt Your graduationE gown lies in rags at theirA feet And in the loG#mnely cool before dawn You hear their Aengines roaring on But when you gF#met to the porch they're Bgone on the Awind, so Mary climbF#m in It's a tAown full of losers, I'm pBulling out of here to Ewin
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