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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:
EScreen door slams MaryAs dress waEves like a vision she dances across thBe porch as the radioA plays Roy Orbison singing for the Blonely hey thats meE and I want you onAly Dont turn me home again I jEust cant face mysBelf alone again
EDont run back inside darliAn u know just whaEt Im here for youre scared n thinkin thaBt maybe we ainAt that young anymore 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 Ehide neath your covers n stuC#mdy your pain make crosEses from your lovers throwA roses in the rain EWaste your summer pG#mraying in vain for a sAavior to rise from these sB7treets
Well nowE Im no hero thats underC#mstood all the redemptiEon I can offer girl is beneathA this 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 &aBmp;amp; I learned how tEo make C#mit talk & my cars out back if youAre readBy 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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