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The Promise by Bruce Springsteen - Guitar Chords

Artist Bruce Springsteen How to play the guitar chord F.jpg How to play the guitar chord Bb.jpg How to play the guitar chord Dm.jpg How to play the guitar chord Gm.jpg How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord Am.jpg

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Version 1
            This is from the Album "18 Tracks". I found the chords somewhere on the internet 
but the lyrics didn't fit, so here are the chords with the lyrics from the album 
version, I hope it's more or less correct. 

  F                             Bb              F
1.Johnny works in a factory, Billy works downtown
Dm                                        Gm              F/A     Bb
Terry works in a rock'n'roll band lookin' for that million-dollar sound
F                             Bb                   F
I got a job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go
Dm                                   Gm         F/A     Bb
Some nights I go to the drive-in and some nights I stay home

(Bb)                                         F
I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the
Bb                 F
screen      I drove my 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 own dreams

        F
2.Well, I built that Challenger by myself
             Bb              F
but I needed money and so I sold it
          Dm
I lived a secret I should-a 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
a fight that you can never win
F                      C                                          F
Every day it just gets harder to live the dream you're believing in

        Gm Am Bb              C            F
Thunder Road____   oh baby you were so right
        Gm Am Bb                                     C         F
Thunder Road____   there's something dying down on the highway tonight


       F
3.Well I won big once and I hit the coast
       Bb                 F
Oh but I paid the big cost
         Dm
Inside I felt like I was carryin' 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 steals something from down in your soul
              F                            C
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
                              F
something in your heart runs cold

Bb
I followed that dream, through the southwestern tracks
       F                        Bb
the dead ends and the two-bit bars
         C
When the promise was broken I was far away from home
                                         F
sleeping in the backseat of a borrowed car

        Gm Am Bb                                 C             F
Thunder Road____  here's for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
        Gm Am Bb                               C         F
Thunder Road____  here's for the tires rushing by in the rain
        Gm Am Bb                           C      F
Thunder Road____  remember Billy what we'd always say
        Gm Am Bb                                        C     F
Thunder Road____  we were gonna take it all and throw it all away 
        

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