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Song: Riders On The Storm Artists: The Doors Album: The Greatest Hits: The Doors, 1980/1996 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx6gULYNbc; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_%28The_Doors_album%29 Tempo: 4|4 Tuning: Standard Chords: EADGBe Em 022000 A X02220 Am X02210 Bm7/A X04232 C6/A X05553 D/A X00232 D XX0232 C X32010 Em7 020000 Em9 020002 INTRO:(Rain & Thunder over) |Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A| |Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A|(Keyboards & Bass over) |Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A| |Em A| CHORUS 1:

^EmRiders on the ^Astorm,^Em ^A ^EmRiders on the ^Astorm.^Em ^A In^Amto this house we're ^Bm7/Aborn, ^C6/A ^D/A In^Emto this world we're th^Arown.^Em ^A Like a ^Ddog without a bone, An ^Cactor out on loan. ^EmRiders on the ^Astorm. ^Em7 ^A

VERSE 1:

There's a ^Emkiller on ^Athe road,^Em7 ^A His brain is ^Emsquirmin' like ^Aa toad.^Em7 ^A Take ^Ama long holi^Bm7/Aday, ^C6/A ^D/A ^EmLet your children ^Aplay.^Em7 ^A If you ^Dgive this man a ride, Sweet ^Cfamily will die. ^EmKiller on ^Athe road, yeah.^Em7 ^A

BRIDGE 1:(Lead over) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| VERSE 2:

Girl, you ^Emgotta love ^Ayour man, ^Em7 ^A Girl, you ^Emgotta love ^Ayour man. ^Em7 ^A ^AmTake him by the ^Bm7/Ahand, ^C6/A ^D/A ^EmMake him understan^Ad. ^Em7 ^A The ^Dworld on you depends, Our ^Clife will never end. ^EmGotta love ^Ayour man, ^Em7yeah^A.

BRIDGE 2:(Keyboards & Bass over) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Keyboard trills) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Keyboard over) CHORUS 2:(Drum roll-in)

BRIDGE 3: |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| CODA:

^Em9Riders ^Aon the ^Em9storm, ^Em9Riders ^Aon the ^Em9storm. ^Em9Riders ^Aon the ^Em9storm, ^Em9Riders ^Aon the ^Em9storm.

BRIDGE 4:(Keyboards over) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder) |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A| |Em A|Em7 A|(Diminuative Vibrato Lead over) |Em A|Em7 A|[Fade Out] [End] NOTES: 1. “…As it says in Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis, in 1962, while Jim was attending Florida State University in Tallahassee, he was seeing a girl named Mary Werbelow who lived in Clearwater, 280 miles away. Jim would oftentimes hitchhike to see her. "Those solitary journeys on hot and dusty Florida two-lane blacktop roads, with his thumb out and his imagination on fire with lust and poetry and Nietzsche and God knows what else - taking chances on redneck truckers, fugitive homos, and predatory cruisers - left an indelible psychic scar on Jimmy, whose notebooks began to obsessively feature scrawls and drawings of a lone hitchhiker, an existential traveler, faceless and dangerous, a drifting stranger with violent fantasies, a mystery tramp: the killer on the road.”…” http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=273 2. Ray Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008 album "Ballads Before the Rain". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm

The Doors - Riders on the storm