Chords for Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (18 Tracks version)

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[F] _ _ Johnny works in a factory, _ _
[Bb] _ _ Billy works [F] downtown, _ _
_ [Dm] _ Terry works in a rock and roll band, [Gm] looking
for that million dollar [F] sound. _ _
_ [F] I got a job down in Darlington, _
[Bb] but some nights I don't [F] go. _ _ _
[Dm] _ Some nights I go to the drive-in, _
[Gm] and some nights I stay [Bb] home.
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_ Followed that dream just like those guys [F] do way up on the [Bb] screen. _ _ _
_ Drove my Challenger down Route 9 through the [F] dead ends and all the bed [Bb] scene. _ _
[C] The promise was broken, I cased in a few of my [F] own dreams.
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[F] Well I built that Challenger by myself, but I [Bb] needed money and so I sold [F] it. _ _ _
[Dm] Lived a secret I should have kept to myself, but I [Gm] got drunk one [D] night and I told [Bb] it. _ _ _
[Dm] _ [D] All my life [Am] I fought that fight, _ [Gm] the fight that you [Bb] can't ever win. _ _
[F] _ Every day [C] it's harder to live the dream [C] you're believing [F] in.
_ Thunder [Gm] _ [D] Road, _ [F] _ _ _
baby you were so right.
_ _ Thunder [Gm] _ _ Road, [F] _ _ there's something dying down on the highway tonight. _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ [F] Well I owned big ones and I hit the coast, _ [Bb] yeah but I paid the cost.
[F] _ _ Inside I [Dm] felt like I was carrying _ broken spirits of [Gm] all the other [A] ones who [Bb] belonged.
_ _ [Dm] When the promise is broken, [Am] you go on living, but it [Gm] steals something from down in [F] your soul.
Like when the truth is spoken [C] and it don't make no difference, _ something in your heart runs [F] cold.
_ _ [Bb] I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks, the dead [F] ends and the two bed [Bb] bars.
When [C] the promise was broken, I was far away from home, sleeping in the backseat [C] of a borrowed [F] car.
_ [Gm] Thunder Road, _
[F] _ _ it's for the lost lovers and all the fixed gains.
_ Thunder [Gm] _ [D] Road, _
[Bb] _ _ [F] it's for the tires rushing [C] by in [F] the rain.
_ Thunder [D] _ Road, _
[Bb] _ remember Billy what we'd always [F] say.
_ Thunder [Gm] _ Road, _
[Bb] _ _ [F] we were gonna take it all and [Cm] throw it all away.
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