Intro: F Bb F C F Am Bb Csus4-C

	F	Bb	F	F
The	screen door slams	Mary’s	dress waves Like a	vision she dances

C	Bb	C
across the porch As the	radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the	lonely

	F	Bb	F
Hey that’s	me and I want you	only Don’t turn me home again I	just can’t face

C

myself alone again

	F	Bb	F
Don’t	run back inside darling	you know just what I’m	here for

	C	Bb
So you’re scared and you’re thinking That	maybe we ain’t that	young anymore

	C
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the	night

	F	Bb	F	C
You ain’t a	beauty, but hey you’re	alright Oh and	that’s alright with	me

	F	Dm	F
You can	hide neath your covers And	study your pain Make	crosses from your lovers

	Bb	F	Am
Throw	roses in the rain	Waste your summer	praying in rain

	Bb	C7	F
For a	saviour to rise from these	streets Well now	I’m no hero

	Dm	F	Bb
That’s	understood All the	redemption I can offer, girl Is	beneath this dirty hood

F	Am	Bb	C7
With a chance to make it	good somehow Hey	what else can we do	now

	F	Bb	F
Except	roll down the window	And let the wind blow	back your hair

	C	Bb
Well the night’s busting open These	two lanes will take us	anywhere

	C	F	Bb
We got one last chance to make it	real To	trade in these wings on some	wheels

	F	C
Climb in back	Heaven’s waiting on	down the tracks

F	Dm	F	Bb
Oh oh come	take my hand	Riding out tonight to	case the promised land

F	Am	Bb	C7
Oh	oh Thunder Road,	oh Thunder Road	oh Thunder Road

F	Dm	F
Lying out there like a	killer in the sun Hey	I know it’s late

	Bb	F	Am	Bb	C7	F
we can	make it if we run	Oh Thunder	Road, sit	tight take	hold Thunder	Road

	Bb	C	F
Well I	got this guitar And I	learned how to make it talk

	Dm	Bb	C
And my	car’s out back If you’re ready to take that	long	walk

	Bb	C	Am	Dm
From your	front porch to my front	seat The door’s	open but the ride it ain’t	free

	Bb	Bb/A	Gm7	Bb/F
And I	know you’re	lonely For words that	I ain’t	spoken

	C
But	tonight we’ll be free All the promises’ll be broken

	F	Bb	F
There were	ghosts in the eyes Of	all the boys you	sent away

	C	Bb
They haunt this dusty beach road In the	skeleton frames of	burned out Chevrolets

	C	F
They scream your name at night in the street	Your graduation	gown lies in rags at

Bb	Am
their feet And in the	lonely cool before dawn

	Bb	Gm	C
You hear their	engines roaring on But when you	get to the porch they’re	gone

	Bb	Gm	Bb
On the	wind, so Mary climb	in It’s a	town full of losers

	C	F	F
And I’m	pulling out of here to	win.