Moonlight Motel chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: Eb MajorEb

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA


Verse 1:

D MajorD          B minorBm
There's a place on a blank stretch of road where
G+G             A augmentedA
Nobody travels and nobody goes and the
D MajorD         B minorBm
Deskman says these days 'round here
   G+G                     A augmentedA
Where two young folks could probably up and disappear into
G+G             D MajorD
Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room
B minorBm    Bm/ABm/A  G+G
Into the musty smell
  D MajorD            B minorBm
Of wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours
    G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
At the Moonlight Motel

Verse 2:

    D MajorD             B minorBm
Now the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep
  G+G                        A augmentedA
Got dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete
D MajorD           B minorBm
Chain-link fence half-rusted away
   G+G                     A augmentedA
Got a sign, says, "Children, be careful how you play"
G+G              D MajorD
Your lipstick taste and your whispered secret
 B minorBm    Bm/ABm/A   G+G
I promised I'd never tell
 D MajorD            B minorBm
A augmentedA half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear
    G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
At the Moonlight Motel

Chorus:

        G+G         D/F#D/F#
Well then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills
    B minorBm   Bm/ABm/A  G+G
And the ringing of the bell
      D MajorD            B minorBm
Across the valley floor through the dusty screen door
    G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
Of the Moonlight Motel


Verse 3:

D MajorD            B minorBm
Last night I dreamed of you, my lover
    G+G                       A augmentedA
And the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers
   D MajorD           B minorBm
Of my lonely bed, I woke to something you said
     G+G                        A augmentedA
That it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved
G+G            D MajorD
As I drove, there was a chill in the breeze
      B minorBm        Bm/ABm/A  G+G
And leaves tumbled from the sky and fell
   D MajorD        B minorBm
On a road so black as I backtracked
    G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD B minorBm
To the Moonlight Motel
    G+G              D MajorD
She was boarded up and gone like an old summer song
B minorBm       Bm/ABm/A G+G
Nothing but an empty shell
 D MajorD             B minorBm
I pulled in and stopped into my old spot


Instrumental:

G+G A augmentedA B minorBm


Chorus:

      G+G            D MajorD
I pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag
        B minorBm       Bm/ABm/A  G+G
Poured one for me and one for you as well
      D MajorD                 B minorBm
Then it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot
    G+G  A augmentedA    D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
To the Moonlight Motel