Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by Joe Sun
Verse 1
Em
What do you guys say?
G
Em
You got time for one more?
Let me tell you a story I can tell it all
B
About the mountain boy
Em
He ran a little alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey
Some he drove the load
B
Went as engine roared
Em
They call the highway
Thunder Road
Sometimes into Asheville
Sometimes Memphis town
B
The revenuers chased him,
Em
but they couldn't lump him down
Each time they thought they had him,
his engine would explode
B
And he'd go by like they
were standing still
Em
on Thunder Road
E
A
There was thunder,
E
thunder over Thunder Road
B
Thunder was his engine
E
and White Lightning was
Am
his load
Moonshine, moonshine,
Em
he punched the devil's thirst
B
The lobby swore they'd get him,
Em
Fm
but the devil got him first
On the 1st of April, 1954,
C
the federal man said,
Fm
Well, he better make his run no more.
He sent 200 agents recovering
the state.
C
Whichever road he tried to take,
Fm
they'd give him sure as fate.
Now, son, his daddy told him,
make this run your last.
C
The tank is filled with hundred proof,
Fm
and you're all tuned up and gassed.
Now, don't take any chances
if you can't get through.
C
I'd rather have him home again
Fm
than all that mountain dew
F
Bb
There was thunder,
F
thunder over thunder road
C
Thunder was his angel
F
and wildlife was his lord
Bbm
Moonshine, moonshine
Fm
quenched the devil's thirst
C
The lovers swore to get him
Fm
C
Fm
but the devil got him first
Interlude 1
Bb
F
C
F
Bbm
Fm
C
Fm
Gbm
Verse 2
Gbm
Roarin' out of Harland,
revvin' up his mill
Verse 3
C#
He shot the gap at Cumberland
Gbm
and screamed by Maynardville
Verse 4
Gbm
With two men on his tail,
that's roadblocks up ahead
Verse 5
C#
That mountain boy took roads
Gbm
that even angels fear to tread
Verse 6
Gbm
Blazin' right through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
Verse 7
C#
Right outside of Bearden there,
F#m
they made the fiddle strike
He left the road at ninety,
that's all there is to say
C#
The devil took the moonshine
Gbm
and them out before that day
B
There was thunder,
Gb
thunder over Thunder Road
C#
Thunder was his engine
Gb
and white lightning was
Bm
his road
Moonshine, moonshine,
Gbm
quenched the devil's thirst
C#
All this wounded giddyum,
F#m
but the devil got him first
C#
All this wounded bidding,
Gbm
Db
Gbm
but the devil got him first
Ballad Of Thunder Road
Joe Sun
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