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The Promise chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

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.

  Chord diagramFF                             Chord diagramBb majorBb              Chord diagramFF
1.Johnny works in a factory, Billy works downtown
Chord diagramDmDm                                        Chord diagramG minorGm              Chord diagramF/AF/A     Chord diagramBb majorBb
Terry works in a rock'n'roll band lookin' for that million-dollar sound
Chord diagramFF                             Chord diagramBb majorBb                   Chord diagramFF
I got a job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go
Chord diagramDmDm                                   Chord diagramG minorGm         Chord diagramF/AF/A     Chord diagramBb majorBb
Some nights I go to the drive-in and some nights I stay home

(Chord diagramBb majorBb)                                         Chord diagramFF
I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the
Chord diagramBb majorBb                 Chord diagramFF
screen      I drove my Challenger down route 9
                Chord diagramBb majorBb                    Chord diagramFF
through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
             Chord diagramC majorC                                              Chord diagramFF
And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my own dreams

        Chord diagramFF
2.Well, I built that Challenger by myself
             Chord diagramBb majorBb              Chord diagramFF
but I needed money and so I sold it
          Chord diagramDmDm
I lived a secret I should-a kept to myself
          Chord diagramG minorGm               Chord diagramF/AF/A  Chord diagramBb majorBb
But I got drunk one night and I told it
Chord diagramDmDm               Chord diagramA minorAm
All my life I've fought that fight
    Chord diagramG minorGm          Chord diagramF/AF/A         Chord diagramBb majorBb
a fight that you can never win
Chord diagramFF                      Chord diagramC majorC                                          Chord diagramFF
Every day it just gets harder to live the dream you're believing in

        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb              Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____   oh baby you were so right
        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb                                     Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____   there's something dying down on the highway tonight


       Chord diagramFF
3.Well I won big once and I hit the coast
       Chord diagramBb majorBb                 Chord diagramFF
Oh but I paid the big cost
         Chord diagramDmDm
Inside I felt like I was carryin' broken spirits
   Chord diagramG minorGm            Chord diagramF/AF/A      Chord diagramBb majorBb
of all the other ones who lost
        Chord diagramDmDm                     Chord diagramA minorAm
When the promise is broken you go on livin'
       Chord diagramG minorGm                   Chord diagramF/AF/A          Chord diagramBb majorBb
but it steals something from down in your soul
              Chord diagramFF                            Chord diagramC majorC
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
                              Chord diagramFF
something in your heart runs cold

Chord diagramBb majorBb
I followed that dream, through the southwestern tracks
       Chord diagramFF                        Chord diagramBb majorBb
the dead ends and the two-bit bars
         Chord diagramC majorC
When the promise was broken I was far away from home
                                         Chord diagramFF
sleeping in the backseat of a borrowed car

        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb                                 Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____  here's for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb                               Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____  here's for the tires rushing by in the rain
        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb                           Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____  remember Billy what we'd always say
        Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramBb majorBb                                        Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramFF
Thunder Road____  we were gonna take it all and throw it all away

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