Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by
Dick Nolan
Dick Nolan

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Key: A major
Verse 1
Cm
Cm

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

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