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Riders On The Storm

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The Doors was an American rock band which formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1965. The band consisted of Jim Morrison (vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ), Robby Krieger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums). In this configuration, the band released six albums, all of which were successful and released two US #1 hit singles - 1967's "Light My Fire" and 1968's "Hello, I Love You". After Morrison's death at his apartment at 17 Rue Beautraillis Paris in 1971

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Song: Riders On The Storm
Artists: The Doors
Album: The Greatest Hits: The Doors, 1980/1996
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx6gULYNbc;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_%28The_Doors_album%29
Tempo: 4|4
Tuning: Standard

Chords:
EADGBe
Em 022000
A X02220
Am X02210
Bm7/A X04232
C6/A X05553
D/A X00232
D XX0232
C X32010
Em7 020000
Em9 020002

INTRO:(Rain & Thunder over)
|Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A|
|Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A|(Keyboards & Bass over)
|Em A|Em A|Em A|Em A|
|Em A|

CHORUS 1:
Em A Em A
Riders on the storm,
Em A Em A
Riders on the storm.
Am Bm7/A C6/A D/A
Into this house we're born,
Em A Em A
Into this world we're thrown.
D
Like a dog without a bone,
C
An actor out on loan.
Em A Em7 A
Riders on the storm.

VERSE 1:
Em A Em7 A
There's a killer on the road,
Em A Em7 A
His brain is squirmin' like a toad.
Am Bm7/A C6/A D/A
Take a long holiday,
Em A Em7 A
Let your children play.
D
If you give this man a ride,
C
Sweet family will die.
Em A Em7 A
Killer on the road, yeah.

BRIDGE 1:(Lead over)
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|

VERSE 2:
Em A Em7 A
Girl, you gotta love your man,
Em A Em7 A
Girl, you gotta love your man.
Am Bm7/A C6/A D/A
Take him by the hand,
Em A Em7 A
Make him understand.
D
The world on you depends,
C
Our life will never end.
Em A Em7 A
Gotta love your man, yeah.

BRIDGE 2:(Keyboards & Bass over)
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder)
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|

|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder)
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Keyboard trills)

|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Keyboard over)

CHORUS 2:(Drum roll-in)
Em A Em A
Riders on the storm,
Em A Em A
Riders on the storm.
Am Bm7/A C6/A D/A
Into this house we're born,
Em A Em A
Into this world we're thrown.
D
Like a dog without a bone,
C
An actor out on loan.
Em A
Riders on the storm.

BRIDGE 3:
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|

CODA:
Em9 A Em9
Riders on the storm,
Em9 A Em9
Riders on the storm.
Em9 A Em9
Riders on the storm,
Em9 A Em9
Riders on the storm.

BRIDGE 4:(Keyboards over)
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Rain & Thunder)

|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|
|Em A|Em7 A|(Diminuative Vibrato Lead over)
|Em A|Em7 A|[Fade Out]

[End]

NOTES:
1. “…As it says in Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis, in 1962, while Jim was attending
Florida State University in Tallahassee, he was seeing a girl named Mary Werbelow who lived in Clearwater,
280 miles away. Jim would oftentimes hitchhike to see her. "Those solitary journeys on hot and dusty
Florida two-lane blacktop roads, with his thumb out and his imagination on fire with lust and poetry
and Nietzsche and God knows what else - taking chances on redneck truckers, fugitive homos, and predatory
cruisers - left an indelible psychic scar on Jimmy, whose notebooks began to obsessively feature scrawls
and drawings of a lone hitchhiker, an existential traveler, faceless and dangerous, a drifting stranger
with violent fantasies, a mystery tramp: the killer on the road.”…”
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=273
2. Ray Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008
album "Ballads Before the Rain". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm