Moonlight Motel chords by Bruce Springsteen

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Eb

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

D Bm G A


Verse 1:

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

Verse 2:

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


Chorus:

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


Verse 3:

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


Instrumental:

G A Bm


Chorus:

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