Ballad Of Thunder Road:Robert Mitchum.
#62 on BB Hot 100 on U/A Records in
1958.
INTRO: Cm
#1.
Cm
Let me tell the story, I can tell it all.
G7 C
About the mountain boy who ran illegal
alcohol.
Cm
His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove
the load.
G7
When his engine roared, they called the
F C
highway Thunder Road.
#2.
Cm
Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town.
G7 C
The revenuers chased him but they couldn’t run
him down.
C
Each time they thought they had him, his engine
would explode.
G7 F
He'd go by like they were standin’ still on
C
Thunder Road.
CHORUS:
F C
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
G7 C
Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was
his load.
Fm C
There was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the
Devil’s thirst.
G7 C
The law they swore they'd get him, but the Devil
got him first.
#3.
Cm
On the first of April, nineteen fifty-four..
G7 C
a Federal man sent word he’d better make his run
no more.
C
He said, two hundred agents were coverin’ the state.
G7 F
Whichever road he tried to take, they’d get him sure
C
as fate.
#4.
Cm
Son, his Daddy told him, make this run your last.
G7 C
The tank is filled with hundred-proof, you’re all tuned
up and gassed.
C
Now, don’t take any chances, if you can’t get through.
G7 F C
I’d rather have you back again than all that mountain dew.
CHORUS:
F C
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
G7 C
Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was
his load.
Fm C
There was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the
Devil’s thirst.
G7 C
The law they swore they'd get him, but the Devil
got him first.
#5.
Cm G7
Roarin’ out of Harlan, revvin’ up his mil..he shot the
C
gap at Cumberland, and screamed by Maynardville.
C
With T-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead..
G7 C
the mountain boy took roads that even Angels feared to tred.
#6.
Cm
Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
G7 C
then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
C
He left the road at ninety, that’s all there is to say.
G7 F C
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.
CHORUS:
F C
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
G7 C
Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was
his load.
Fm C
There was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the
Devil’s thirst.
G7 C
The law they never got him, cause the Devil got him first.
OUTRO:
G7 C
The law they never got him, cause the Devil got him first.
Cm
(Thunder, Thunder, Thunder Road.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
