Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by
Joe Sun
Joe Sun

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Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
Em

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What do you guys say?
G
G

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Em
Em

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You got time for one more?
Let me tell you a story I can tell it all
B
B

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About the mountain boy
Em
Em

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He ran a little alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey
Some he drove the load
B
B

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Went as engine roared
Em
Em

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They call the highway
Thunder Road
Sometimes into Asheville
Sometimes Memphis town
B
B

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The revenuers chased him,
Em
Em

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but they couldn't lump him down
Each time they thought they had him,
his engine would explode
B
B

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And he'd go by like they
were standing still
Em
Em

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on Thunder Road
E
E

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A
A

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There was thunder,
E
E

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thunder over Thunder Road
B
B

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Thunder was his engine
E
E

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and White Lightning was
Am
Am

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his load
Moonshine, moonshine,
Em
Em

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he punched the devil's thirst
B
B

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The lobby swore they'd get him,
Em
Em

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Fm
Fm

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but the devil got him first
On the 1st of April, 1954,
C
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the federal man said,
Fm
Fm

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Well, he better make his run no more.
He sent 200 agents recovering
the state.
C
C

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Whichever road he tried to take,
Fm
Fm

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they'd give him sure as fate.
Now, son, his daddy told him,
make this run your last.
C
C

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The tank is filled with hundred proof,
Fm
Fm

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and you're all tuned up and gassed.
Now, don't take any chances
if you can't get through.
C
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I'd rather have him home again
Fm
Fm

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than all that mountain dew
F
F

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Bb
Bb

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There was thunder,
F
F

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thunder over thunder road
C
C

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Thunder was his angel
F
F

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and wildlife was his lord
Bbm
Bbm

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Moonshine, moonshine
Fm
Fm

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quenched the devil's thirst
C
C

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The lovers swore to get him
Fm
Fm

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C
C

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Fm
Fm

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but the devil got him first
Interlude 1
Bb
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F
F

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C
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F
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Bbm
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Fm
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C
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Fm
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Gbm
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Verse 2
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Roarin' out of Harland,
revvin' up his mill
Verse 3
C#
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He shot the gap at Cumberland
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and screamed by Maynardville
Verse 4
Gbm
Gbm

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With two men on his tail,
that's roadblocks up ahead
Verse 5
C#
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That mountain boy took roads
Gbm
Gbm

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that even angels fear to tread
Verse 6
Gbm
Gbm

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Blazin' right through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
Verse 7
C#
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Right outside of Bearden there,
F#m
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they made the fiddle strike
He left the road at ninety,
that's all there is to say
C#
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The devil took the moonshine
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and them out before that day
B
B

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There was thunder,
Gb
Gb

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thunder over Thunder Road
C#
C#

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Thunder was his engine
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Gb

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and white lightning was
Bm
Bm

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his road
Moonshine, moonshine,
Gbm
Gbm

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quenched the devil's thirst
C#
C#

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All this wounded giddyum,
F#m
F#m

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but the devil got him first
C#
C#

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All this wounded bidding,
Gbm
Gbm

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Db
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Gbm
Gbm

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but the devil got him first

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