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