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Song
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks (Pat Alger & Garth Brooks)
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Original Official Video here - https://youtu.be/AiYEapQR1A0
Playing Notes
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The picking pattern in the intro can be repeated throughout the verses (except for the A Asus4 A section
at the end) and two versions of the chords are given below. V1 for picking if you want to play that
throughout and V2 for an easier strumming version. I have given a more comprehensive tab at the bottom
of the chord sheet for anyone wanting to play a closer version of the picking.
This gives way to mostly strumming in the choruses to provide the dynamics between the
quieter (worried) verses and louder (angrier) choruses.
You can swap the barre chords in the chorus for open positions if that is easier for you.
Verse 4 was not included in the original recording and was originally only used during live shows but
it has since been included on remastered and some later released versions.
V1 V2
Dm - xx023x - xx0231
Dm7 - xx021x - xx0211
Bb/F - xx333x - 113331
A - x0x220 - x02220
Cadd9 - x3x03x - x32033
G/B - x2x03x - x20033
A7sus4 - - x0203x
A7 - - x02020
Chorus chords
Bb - x1333X
C - x3555X
Dm - x5776X
A - x02220
Asus4 - x02230
Intro
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|-----3---3-----3-----3---1-----1-|-----3---3-----3-----3---1-----1-| G|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----| D|-0-----------0-----0---------0---|-0-----------0-----0---------0---| (x2) A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Verse
Three-thirty in the morning, not a soul in sight
The city's lookin' like a ghost town on a moonless summer night
Raindrops on the windshield, there's a storm moving in
He's headin' back from somewhere that he never should have been
Cadd9 G/B A A7sus4 A7 Dm Dm7 | Dm Dm7 |
And the thunder rolls, and the thunder rolls
Verse 2
Every light is burnin' in a house across town
She's pacin' by the telephone in her faded flannel gown
Askin' for a miracle, hopin' she's not right
Prayin' it's the weather that's kept him out all night
And the thunder rolls, and the thunder rolls
Chorus
The thunder rolls and the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold on a sleepless night
As the storm blows on out of control
Bb C Dm Dm7 | Dm Dm7 |
Deep in her heart the thunder rolls
Verse 3
She's waitin' by the window when he pulls into the drive
She rushes out to hold him thankful he's alive
But on the wind and rain a strange new perfume blows
And the lightnin' flashes in her eyes and he knows that she knows
And the thunder rolls, and the thunder rolls
Chorus
The thunder rolls and the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold on a sleepless night
As the storm blows on out of control
Deep in her heart the thunder rolls (to outro on original version)
Verse 4
She runs back down the hallway and through the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol kept in a dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror he won't do this again
'Cause tonight will be the last time she'll wonder where he's been
Cadd9 G/B A A7sus4 A7 Dm Dm Dm Dm Dm Dm N.C.
And the thunder rolls, and the thunder rolls
Chorus
The thunder rolls and the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold on a sleepless night
As the storm blows on out of control
Deep in her heart the thunder rolls
Outro
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|-----3---3-----3-----3---1-----1-|-----3---3-----3-----3---1-----1-| G|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----| D|-0-----------0-----0---------0---|-0-----------0-----0---------0---| (x4 and fade A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| on last repeat) E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
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Verse
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|-----3---3-----3-----3---3-------|---3---3-----3-----3----3------3-| G|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----|-----3---3-----3-----3-----3-----| D|-0-----------0-----0---------0---|-3---------3-----3-----------3---| A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Three-thirty in the morning not a soul in sight
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|---2-----2---------2-----2-------|---2-----2-----------3---3-----3-| G|-----2-----2---2-----2-----2---2-|-----2-----2---2---2---2---2-----| D|-------------2---------------2---|-------------2---0-----------0---| A|-0-----0---------0-----0---------|-0-----0-------------------------| E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
The city's................................ summer night
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|-----3---3-----3-----3---3-------|---3---3-----3-----3----3------3-| G|---2---2---2-----2-----2---2-----|-----3---3-----3-----3-----3-----| D|-0-----------0-----0---------0---|-3---------3-----3-----------3---| A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Raindrops.........................storm moving in
e|---------------------------------|------------------------| B|---2-----2---------2-----2-------|----2--------2----------| G|-----2-----2---2-----2-----2---2-|-------2--------2-----2-| D|-------------2---------------2---|-------------------2----| A|-0-----0---------0-----0---------|-0--------0-------------| E|---------------------------------|------------------------|
He's headin'...........................................been
e|---------------------------------|---------------------------------| B|-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-|-----3---3-----3-----3-------3---| G|---2---2---2-------2---2---2-----|---0---0---0-------0---0---0---0-| D|-0-----------0---0-----------0---|---------------------------------| A|---------------------------------|-3-----------3---3-------2-------| E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
e|-----------------0---------------| B|-----2-------3---2---------------| G|---2-------0-0---0---------------| D|-------------2---2---------------| (Back to intro pattern A|-0-----0-----0---0---------------| for two bars and then into Verse 2) E|---------------------------------|
And the thunder rolls
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