Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by
Mark Collie
Mark Collie

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Key: E minor
Intro 1
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G
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Em
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Verse 1
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Now let me tell a story,
I can tell it all
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About the mountain boy
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who ran illegal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey,
the son, he drove the load
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And when his engine roared,
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they called the highway thunder road
Verse 2
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Sometimes into Ashville,
sometimes Memphis Town
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The revenuers, they chased him,
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but they couldn't run him down
Each time they thought they had him,
his engine would explode
B
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He'd go by like they were standing
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still on thunder road
Verse 3
A
A

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There was thunder,
E
E

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Em
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thunder over thunder road
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B

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Thunder was his engine and white
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E

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Em
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lightning was his load
A
A

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There was moonshine,
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moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
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B
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The law they swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him first
Verse 4
E
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On the first of April, 1954
The federal man sent word, he
better make his run no more
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He said two hundred agents were
covering the state
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Whichever road he'd try to take,
they'd get him sure as fate
Verse 5
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'Son', his daddy told him, 'Now make
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this run your last
Your tank is filled with a hundred proof,
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you're all tuned up and gassed
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Now don't take any chances,
if you can't get through
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I'd rather have you back again
than all that mountain dew?
Verse 6
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There was thunder, thunder over
thunder road
Thunder was his engine and white
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B
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lightning was his load
There was moonshine,
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moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
The law they swore they'd get him,
Verse 7
but the devil got him first
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Roaring out of Harlan,
revving up his mill
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He shot the gap at Cumberland
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and screamed through Maynardville
With G- men on his tail light,
roadblocks up ahead
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The mountain boy took roads that even
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Em
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angels feared to tread
Verse 8
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Blazing right through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
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Then right outside of Bearden, there
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they made the fatal strike
He left the road at ninety,
that's all there is to say
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The devil got the moonshine and the
mountain boy that day
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E
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Verse 9
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There was thunder,
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thunder over thunder road
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Thunder was his engine and
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white lightning was his load
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A
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There was moonshine,
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moonshine to quench 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
Outro 1
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