Chords for Michael McDermott, *THUNDER ROAD*

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_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ The scream door [Bb] slams, _ _ [F] Mary's dressed in lace, _ _ _ like a vision she [C] dances across the porch
as [Bb] her radio plays.
_ _ Oh, you're listening [C] for the wrong one, [F] hey that's me and I [Bb] want you all right, don't
turn me on again, [F] I just can't stand [C] the thought of love.
_ _ _ _ [F] Oh, I _ [Bb] don't know just what [F] I'm here _ for.
_ _ [C] So you're [F] [C] scared and you're thinking, and you're thinking we ain't that [Bb] _ [C]
young [Bb] anymore.
_ Showing your faith is magic [C] and light, you ain't [F] a beauty [Bb] but hey you are a little. _ _ _
Oh, [F] and that's all [C] right.
Oh, [Bb] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [F] we can have a few covers and study your pain, make crosses and flowers, throw [Bb] [C] roses
in the [F] wind, waste your [Am] soul, pray it in vain, just [Bb] save your eyes from the [F] ashes.
[Am] _ [C] Well, [F] I'm no hero [Dm] that's understood, [Am] all [F] the redemption I can offer, [Bb] girl, is beneath this [C] dirty [F] world.
With a chance to [Am] make a good time, _ [Bb] hey what else can we [C] do now?
_ [F] Get your road out the window [Bb] and let the wind [F] blow back your head.
_ _ _ The night's busted open, [Am] these two lanes will take [C] us _ _ [Bb] anywhere.
_ _ We've got one [C] last chance to make it real.
[Dm] _ [C] _ [F] Trading [C] these wings [Bb] on some wheels, _ _ climbing back, [F] _ heaven's waiting [C] down on us.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Oh, come [Dm] take my [F] hand, _ _ tonight [Bb] we won't chase the [F] promised land. _
Oh, [A] _ Thunder Road, [Bb] Thunder _ [F] Road, [C] _ _ [F] it's light out there like [Dm] a killer in the sun.
_ [F] I know a place where [Bb] we can make it.
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Oh, [Am] _ Thunder Road, [Bb] say hey, _ [C] say ho, _ [F] Thunder Road.
_ _ _ [Bb] Now I got this guitar [C] and I learned how to make [F] it talk.
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ And [Dm] my car's out back, she's ready to take [Bb] that _ _ [C] long walk.
Two [Bb] blunt boys with knives [C] on their feet.
The [Am] door's open but the [Dm] ride ain't free.
_ [Bb] And I know you're lonely, there's words that I ain't spoken.
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Tonight we'll [D] be free, all the [C] promises will [Bb] be broken.
[C] _ _ [F] There are ghosts in the [Bb] eyes of [C] all those [F] boys you sent away. _ _
_ They haunt this dusty beach road, [Am] the scattered frames, [Bb] burned out _ satellites.
_ They scream your [C] name at night in the streets,
no [F] graduation outlines and rags [Bb] at their feet.
[Am] And all the way to home we fall down,
_ from your [Bb] home you hear their engines [Gm] whine on.
_ When we get to the porch, [C] they're gone.
Oh, [Bb] _ _ _ _
there's a merry [Gm]-go-round, _ _ _
_ _ it's a _ [C] jamsalot,
I'm pulling out of [F] here. _ _ _ _
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