Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by Dick nolan
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Verse 1
(C minor) Now let me tell the story,
I can tell it all
About (G major) the mountain boy
who ran il (C major) legal (C minor) al cohol
His daddy made the whiskey,
his son he drove the load
And (G major) when his engine roared
they called the highway Thunder
(C major) Road
Sometimes (G major) in to (C major) Nashville,
sometimes Memphis town
(G major) The revenues they chased him
but they (C major) couldn't run him down
Each time they (G major) thought they (C major) had him,
(G major) his (C major) en gine (G major) would ex (C major) plode
And (G major) he'd go by like they were standing still
on Thunder Road
There was (F major) thunder,
thunder over (C major) Thunder Road
Thun (G major) der was his engine
and white lightning was his load
(F minor) Moonshine, moon (F major) shine
(C major) quenched (G major) the devil's (C major) thirst
The (G major) law they swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him (C major) first (C minor)
On the 1st of April, 1954,
the (G major) federal man said word
he'd better make (C major) his run no (C minor) more.
He said two hundred agents
were covering the state.
Whichever (G major) road he tried to take,
they'd get him sure as clay.
(C major) Son, his (G major) daddy told (C major) him, (G major)
(C major) make this run your (G major) last.
Your tank is filled with hundred proof,
you're (C major) all wound (G major) up and gassed.
(C major) Now don't take (G major) any chances,
an (C major) d if you get through
I'd (G major) rather have you back again
than (C major) all the (G major) mountain (C major) dune
There was (F major) thunder,
thunder over (C major) Thunder Road
Thun (G major) der was his engine
and white lightning was his (C major) load
(F major) Moonshine, moonshine
(C major) quenched (G major) the devil's thirst
The law, they swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him (C major) further (C minor)
Roarin' out of Harlem, reavin' up his mill
He (G major) shot the gap at Cumberland
and (C major) screamed by (G major) Maryville
(C minor) With T -Man on his taillight
and roadblocks up ahead
The (G major) mountain boy took rolls
that even angels feared to (C major) tread
Blazin' (G major) (C major) (G major) right through (C major) Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
Then (G major) right outside of Bearden,
there they (C major) made their (G major) fatal strike
(C major) He left the (G major) road at (C major) ninety, that's all
All there is to (C minor) say,
(C major) the (G major) devil got the moonshine
and the mountain bore that (C major) day
And there was (F major) thunder,
thunder over (C major) (G major) Thunder (C major) Row
(G major) Thunder was his engine
and white lightning was his glow (F major)
Moonshine, moonshine
(C major) quenched (G major) the devil's (C major) thirst
(G major) The law they (D major) swore they'd (G major) get him,
but the devil got him first
The law, swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him first (C minor)
Ballad Of Thunder Road
Dick Nolan
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