Key: A major
Verse 1
I can tell it all
C
Cm
who ran illegal al cohol
His daddy made the whiskey,
his son he drove the load
they called the highway Thunder
C
Road
G
C
Sometimes in to Nashville,
sometimes Memphis town
G
C
Each time they thought they had him,
G
C
G
C
his en gine would explode
G
And he'd go by like they were standing still
on Thunder Road
and white lightning was his load
Fm
F
Moonshine, moonshine
C
G
C
quenched the devil's thirst
C
Cm
but the devil got him first
On the 1st of April, 1954,
C
Cm
he'd better make his run no more.
He said two hundred agents
were covering the state.
they'd get him sure as clay.
C
G
C
G
Son, his daddy told him,
C
G
make this run your last.
Your tank is filled with hundred proof,
C
G
you're all wound up and gassed.
C
G
Now don't take any chances,
C
G
C
than all the mountain dune
C
G
quenched the devil's thirst
The law, they swore they'd get him,
C
Cm
but the devil got him further
Roarin' out of Harlem, reavin' up his mill
C
G
and screamed by Maryville
and roadblocks up ahead
G
C
G
C
Blazin' right through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
C
G
there they made their fatal strike
C
G
C
He left the road at ninety, that's all
C
G
the devil got the moonshine
C
G
C
thunder over Thunder Row
Moonshine, moonshine
C
G
C
quenched the devil's thirst
G
D
G
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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