{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2728131,"song":"Moonlight Motel","artist":"Bruce Springsteen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2728131-moonlight-motel-chords-by-bruce-springsteen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2728131?type=chord","rating":4.78195,"votes":92,"content":"[Chords]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] X32010\r\n[ch]Cadd9[/ch] X32030\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] X02210\r\n[ch]A4[/ch] X02230\r\n[ch]F[/ch] X33210\r\n[ch]G[/ch] 320003\r\n\r\n[tab][Intro]\r\n [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nE|--------------0-----------------------0------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|--1-----3--------3-----1--1-----3--------3--------1---------------1--------1-----------------0-----|\r\nG|-----0-----0--------0--------2-----2--------0--------2-----0---------0--------2-----------0--------|\r\nD|--------------------------------------------------------3------------------------3-----------------|\r\nA|--3-----3-----3-----------0-----0-----0--------3------------------------3--------------------------|\r\nE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-----------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nThere's a place on a blank stretch of road where[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNobody travels and nobody goes and the[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nDeskman says these days 'round here[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere two young folks could probably up and disappear into[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n Into the musty smell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nOf wilted flowers and lazy afternoon hours[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt the Moonlight Motel[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nNow the pool's filled with empty, eight foot deep[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGot dandelions growin' up through the cracks in the concrete[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nChain-link fence half-rusted away[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGot a sign, says, \"Children, be careful how you play\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYour lipstick taste and your whispered secret[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI promised I'd never tell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nA half-drunk beer and your breath in my ear[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt the Moonlight Motel[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell then, it's bills and kids and kids and bills[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the ringing of the bell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nAcross the valley floor through the dusty screen door[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOf the Moonlight Motel[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nLast night I dreamed of you, my lover[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the wind blew through the window and blew off the covers[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nOf my lonely bed, I woke to something you said[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat it's better to have loved, yeah, it's better to have loved[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs I drove, there was a chill in the breeze[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd leaves tumbled from the sky and fell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nOn a road so black as I backtracked[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nTo the Moonlight Motel[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe was boarded up and gone like an old summer song[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNothing but an empty shell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch]\r\nI pulled in and stopped into my old spot[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI pulled a bottle of Jack out of a paper bag[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nPoured one for me and one for you as well[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch]\r\nThen it was one more shot poured out onto the parking lot[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]A4[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the Moonlight Motel[/tab]","plain_text":"[Chords]\nC X32010\nCadd9 X32030\nAm X02210\nA4 X02230\nF X33210\nG 320003\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["C","Cadd9","Am","A4","F","G","E","B","D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cadd9":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,0,3,0],"frets":[-1,3,2,0,3,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}