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The Promise - Bruce Springsteen





| F C| Bb C| F C| Bb C| F C| Bb C| F C| Bb C| F



                          Bb                     F  Dm

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown



Terry works in a rock and roll band

                 Gm       Am7       Bb  F

Lookin'  for that million-dollar sound



I got a little job in Darlington

Bb                         F  Dm

But some nights I don't go

                                      Gm            Am7      Bb

Some nights I go to the drive-in, and some nights I stay home

                                              F               Bb

I followed that dream just like those guys do up on the screen

                                                   F                          Bb

And I drove my Challenger down Route 9 through the dead end and all the bad scenes

         C                                               F      C

When the promise was broken, I cashed in a few of my own dreams



     F

Well I built that Challenger by myself

             Bb                    F  Dm

But I needed money and so I sold it



I lived a secret I shouldn't kept to myself

          Gm                  Am7     Bb  Dm

But I got drunk one night and I told it

              Am

All my life I fought that fight

    Gm                 Am7        Bb

The fight that no man can ever win

F                      C

Every day it just gets harder to live

                           F

This dream I'm believing in

        Gm F Bb                   C    F

Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right

        Gm F Bb                                 C         F C| Bb C| F C| Bb C| F

Thunder Road, there's somethin'  dyin'  on the highway tonight



F

I won big once and I hit the coast 

     Bb                 F

Yeah but I paid the cost

         Dm

Inside I felt like I was carryin' the broken spirits

   Gm            Am7      Bb

Of all the other ones who lost

         Dm                    Am

When the promise is broken you go on living

       Gm                    Am7          Bb

But it steals something from down in your soul

              F                            C

Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference

                                  F

Somethin'  in your heart runs cold

  Bb

I followed that dream through the southwestern track

          F               Bb

That dead ends in two-bit bars

             C

And when the promise was broken I was far away from home

                                           F

Sleepin'  in the backseat of a borrowed car

        Gm F Bb                               C          F

Thunder Road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games

        Gm F Bb                    C             F

Thunder Road,for the tires rushing by in the rain

        Gm F Bb                C         F

Thunder Road,Billy and me we'd always say

        Gm F Bb                                     C       F C| Bb...

Thunder Road,we were gonna take it all and throw in all away







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