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.
FF 
Bb majorBb FF
1.Johnny works in a factory, Billy works downtown
DmDm 
G minorGm 
F/AF/A Bb majorBb
Terry works in a rock'n'roll band lookin' for that million-dollar sound
FF Bb majorBb FF
I got a job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go
DmDm G minorGm F/AF/A Bb majorBb
Some nights I go to the drive-in and some nights I stay home
(Bb majorBb) FF
I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the
Bb majorBb FF
screen I drove my Challenger down route 9
Bb majorBb FF
through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
C majorC FF
And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my own dreams
FF
2.Well, I built that Challenger by myself
Bb majorBb FF
but I needed money and so I sold it
DmDm
I lived a secret I should-a kept to myself
G minorGm F/AF/A Bb majorBb
But I got drunk one night and I told it
DmDm 
A minorAm
All my life I've fought that fight
G minorGm F/AF/A Bb majorBb
a fight that you can never win
FF C majorC FF
Every day it just gets harder to live the dream you're believing in
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ oh baby you were so right
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ there's something dying down on the highway tonight
FF
3.Well I won big once and I hit the coast
Bb majorBb FF
Oh but I paid the big cost
DmDm
Inside I felt like I was carryin' broken spirits
G minorGm F/AF/A Bb majorBb
of all the other ones who lost
DmDm A minorAm
When the promise is broken you go on livin'
G minorGm F/AF/A Bb majorBb
but it steals something from down in your soul
FF C majorC
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
FF
something in your heart runs cold
Bb majorBb
I followed that dream, through the southwestern tracks
FF Bb majorBb
the dead ends and the two-bit bars
C majorC
When the promise was broken I was far away from home
FF
sleeping in the backseat of a borrowed car
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ here's for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ here's for the tires rushing by in the rain
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ remember Billy what we'd always say
G minorGm A minorAm Bb majorBb C majorC FF
Thunder Road____ we were gonna take it all and throw it all away
Other versions of The Promise
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for The Promise by Bruce Springsteen
