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
        022000
         X02220
        X02210
     X04232
      X05553
       X00232
         XX0232
         X32010
       020000
       020002      


INTRO:(Rain & Thunder over)
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CHORUS 1:
            
Riders on the 

      
storm,
            
Riders on the 

      
storm.
            
Into this hous

            
e we're born,
            
Into this worl

             
d we're thrown

   
.
       
Like a dog wit

hout a bone,
   
An actor out o

n loan.
            
Riders on the 

       
storm.


VERSE 1:
            
There's a kill

             
er on the road

  
,
             
His brain is s

             
quirmin' like 

       
a toad.
            
Take a long ho

      
liday,
            
Let your child

         
ren play.
             
If you give th

 
is man a ride,
      
Sweet family w

ill die.
           
Killer on the 

            
road, yeah.


BRIDGE 1:(Lead over)
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VERSE 2:
            
Girl, you gott

             
a love your ma

    
n,
            
Girl, you gott

             
a love your ma

    
n.
            
Take him by th

      
e hand,
            
Make him under

         
stand.
    
The world on y

ou depends,
    
Our life will 

never end.
           
Gotta love you

        
r man, yeah.


BRIDGE 2:(Keyboards & Bass over)
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|   |  |(Keyboard trills)

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CHORUS 2:(Drum roll-in)
            
Riders on the 

      
storm,
            
Riders on the 

      
storm.
            
Into this hous

            
e we're born,
            
Into this worl

             
d we're thrown

   
.
       
Like a dog wit

hout a bone,
   
An actor out o

n loan.
            
Riders on the 


storm.


BRIDGE 3:
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CODA:
          
Riders on the 


storm,
          
Riders on the 


storm.
          
Riders on the 


storm,
          
Riders on the 


storm.
 

BRIDGE 4:(Keyboards over)
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|   |  |(Diminuative Vibrato Lead over)
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[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