Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by Dick nolan
Verse 1
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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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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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Cm
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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Cm
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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G
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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G
quenched the devil's thirst
The law, they swore they'd get him,
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Cm
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
Cm
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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C
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,
Cm
but the devil got him first
Ballad Of Thunder Road
Dick Nolan
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