The Promise
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INTRO:
Guitar (fingerpicking) - just my way of playing it, asterisks mark the
melody (use capo on 5th fret if necessary)
F Bb
* * *
E5-----8-5---*---I*-----*-*---*---I
B----------6-8---I6-----6-6---8---I
G.-5-----------5-I----7-----7---7.I
D.---7-----------I--8------------.I
A8---------------I----------------I
E----------------I6-----6-6-------I
(thumb)
I tried to do the piano figure with results that looked pitiful
and incomprehensible in ASCII. Sorry.
F Bb F
1.Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown
Dm Gm F/A Bb
Terry works in a rock'n'roll band looking for that million-dollar sound
F Bb F
Me I don't do nothing much, I spend a lot of time alone
Dm Gm F/A Bb
Some nights I go to the drive-in and some nights I stay home
(Bb) F
You see I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the
Bb F
screen With a built-up Challenger down route 9
Bb F
through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
C F
And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my old dreams
F
2.You see I built that Challenger by myself
Bb F
but I needed money and so I sold it
Dm
And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself
Gm F/A Bb
But I got drunk one night and I told it
Dm Am
All my life I've fought that fight
Gm F/A Bb
the one that no man can ever win
F C F
and every day it just gets harder to live the dreams I'm believing in
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ I stay up every morning until it turns light
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ there's something dying on the highway tonight
(2x Intro)
F
3.Well now I won big once and I hit the coast
Bb F
Oh but somehow I paid the big cost
Dm
Inside I felt like carrying the broken spirits
Gm F/A Bb
of all the other ones who lost
Dm Am
When the promise is broken you go on livin'
Gm F/A Bb
but it takes something from down in your soul
F C
Like when the truth is spoken but it don't make no difference
F
something in your heart turns cold
Bb
You see I followed that dream , me and some guys
F Bb
through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars
C
When the promise was broken I was drunk and far away from home
F
sleeping with a stranger in the backseat of a borrowed car
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ here's one for the tyres rushing by in the rain
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ I remember when me and Billy would always say
Gm Am Bb C F
Thunder Road____ we were gonna take it all and throw it all away
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Notice that the piano line sometimes follows the vocal melody, so for
exaple at the 'I followed that dream'- line it goes to E, b5 of the Bb
chord.
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