ThunderRoad-CRD

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen (1975)

Album: 'Born To Run'.
Chorded By: Zack Oxford.
4/4 TIME @ 72 & 144 BPM (4 Min. 50 Sec.) in 'F'.
Chords Used:
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F
Dm
Bb
Am
Cs4
C
C7
C7s
Bb/D
C/E
Fs4
C7/E
C7/G
F/A
Gm7
Gm7/C
Bb/F
BbM7
Bb/A
Gm
Em7-5

GUITAR
E A D G B e
-----------------1 3 3 2 1 1
x x 0 2 3 1
x 1 3 3 3 1
x 0 2 2 1 0
x 3 5 5 6 3
x 3 5 5 5 3
x 3 5 3 5 3
x 3 5 3 6 3
x x 0 3 3 1
0 3 2 0 1 0
1 3 3 3 1 1
0 3 5 3 5 3
3 3 5 3 5 3
x 0 3 2 1 1
3 5 3 3 3 3
x 3 3 3 3 3
1 1 3 3 3 1
x 1 3 2 3 1
x 0 3 3 3 1
3 5 5 3 3 3
0 1 2 0 3 3
0 1 2 3 3 3
x x 2 3 3 3

KEYS
Bass| Chord
--------------F
A-C-F
D
A-D-F
Bb
Bb-D-F
A
A-C-E
C
G-C-F
C
G-C-E
C
G-Bb-C-E
C
G-Bb-C-F
D
Bb-D-F
E
G-C-E
F
Bb-C-F
E
G-Bb-C-E
G
G-Bb-C-E
A
A-C-F
G
G-Bb-D-F
C
G-Bb-D-F
F
Bb-D-F
Bb
Bb-D-F-A
A
Bb-D-F
G
G-Bb-D
E
G-Bb-D-E -ORE
G-Bb-D-E -ORE
G-Bb-D-E

INTRO: [8 Meas.] * TEMPO = 72 BPM ----1&2&3&4& 1 2 3 4

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|Dm
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|Am

1&2&3&4&
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The

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VERSE #1: [16 Meas.] * TEMPO = 144 BPM -------|F

C
F |Bb C7
screen door slams
Mar-

Bb
|F
C7s
y's dress waves

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C7

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Like a

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C7
F |C
|Bb
vi-sion she danc- es a-cross the porch as the ra-di-o plays
|Bb

|Bb
C7
Bb/D
|C
Bb/D C/E
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Roy Or-bi-son sing- in' for the lone- ly
Hey, that's

|F
C/E
F
|Bb
me, and I want you on- ly
|F
C/E
just can't face

|Bb
Fs4 Bb/D|
Don't turn me home a-gain I

Dm
|C
Bb
C
|C7
my-self a-lone a-gain

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Don't

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VERSE #2: [16 Meas.]
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C7
run back in-side,
|F

F
|Bb
C7
|F
C7
darl-in', you know just what I'm here for

C7

|F
C
F
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So you're scared and you're think-in' that

|C
may-be we ain't

|Bb
that young

|Bb
an- y-more

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Show a lit-tle

|Bb
C7
Bb/D |C7
Bb/D C7/E
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faith, there's mag- ic in the night
You ain't a
|F
C7/G
F/A|Bb
beau-ty, but hey, you're al- right
|F
|C7
that's al-right with me

F |Bb

Gm7|C7

F/A C7/G|
Oh, and

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You can

VERSE #3: [20 Meas.]

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|Dm
hide 'neath your covers and stud-y your pain,

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make

|F
|Bb
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cros-ses from your lovers, throw ros- es in the rain,
|F

|Am
waste your sum-mer pray-in' in vain

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for a

|Bb
|Gm7/C
C7
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sav-ior to rise from these streets
Well now,
|F
|Dm
I'm no hero, that's un-der-stood

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All the re-

|F
|Bb
C7
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-demp-tion I can of-fer, girl, is be-neath this dirt-y hood
|F
|Dm
with a chance to make it good some- how
|Bb
|C7
what else can we do now
|Bb
let the wind

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Hey,

|F
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ex- cept roll down the win-dow and

|F
blow back your hair

|F

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Well, the

VERSE #4: [16 Meas.]

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|Am
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night's bust-in' o-pen, these two lanes will take us
|Bb
an-

y-

|Bb
where

|Bb
|C7
We got one last chance to make it real

|F
|Bb
trade in these wings on some wheels

|Bb
Climb in

|F
|C7
-en's wait-ing down on the tracks
|Dm
take my hand

|C7

|F
Oh,

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To

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back, heav-
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come

|F
|Bb
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rid-in' out to-night to case the prom- ised land
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CHORUS: [18 Meas.]
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Oh,

|Am
Thun- der Road,

|C7
oh, Thun- der Road

|F

|Bb
oh, Thun- der Road,

|Dm
ly-in' out there like a kil-ler in the sun

|F
|Bb
|F
Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run Oh,
|Am
|Bb
Thun- der Road, sit tight
|F
Road

|F

|C7
take hold

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|

Thun- der

Gm7 F/A Bb |Bb

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Well, I got this gui-tar, and I

|C7
|F
learned how to make it talk

Bb/F |F Bb/F F

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And my

VERSE #5: [16 Meas.]

-------|Dm
|Dm
car's out back, if you're read-y to take
|BbM7
long
|C
seat

|C
walk

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that

|Bb
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from your front porch to my front

|Am
|Dm
The door's o-pen, but the ride ain't free,

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and

|Bb
Bb/A
|Gm7
Bb/F
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I know you're lone-ly for words that I ain't spo- ken, but to|C7
-night we'll be free

|C7
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All the prom-is-es-'ll be bro-ken. These were

|F
|Bb
ghosts in the eyes of all the boys
|F

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They haunt this

|F
you sent a-way

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VERSE #6: [22 Meas.]
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dust-y beach road

|Am
in the skel-e-ton frames

|Bb
burned out Chev-

|Bb
ro-lets

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They

|Bb
|C
scream your name at night in the street
|F
|Bb
gown lies in rags at their feet
|Am
dawn,

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of

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Your grad-u-a-tion

|Am
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And in the lone- ly cool be-fore

|Bb
you hear their en-gines roar-

|Bb
in' on,

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but when you

|Gm
F
Em7-5 Dm
|C
Bb Am Gm
|Bb
get to the porch they're gone
on the wind
|Bb
|Gm
So, Mar- y, climb in

|Gm

|Bb
It's a town full of los-ers

|C7
|F
pul-lin' out of here to win

|F

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I'm

INSTRUMENTAL (CODA): [34 Meas.] 'Guitar & Sax Solos' ------------------|F

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