The ballad of thunder road chords by
R.b. Morris

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Key: E minor

Verse 1
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A A 
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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B B 2
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A A 
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Em Em 
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Let Me
B B 2
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Tell tell the story I can tell it all
About the mountain boy
Em Em 
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who ran illegal alcohol
B B 2
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His daddy made the whiskey
The sun he drove the load
And when his engines roared
Em Em 
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They called the highway Thun
G G 
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Em Em 
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G G 
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der Road
Em Em 
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Sometimes into Asheville
Sometimes Memphis town
B B 2
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The revenuers chased him
Em Em 
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But they couldn't run him down
Each time they thought they had him
His engine would explode
B B 2
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He'd go by like they were
Em Em 
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Standing still on Thunder Road
E E 
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A A 
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And there was thunder, thunder
E E 
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Over Thunder Road
B B 2
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Thunder was his engine
E E 
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White lightning was his load
Em Em 
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Am Am 
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And there was moonshine, moonshine
Em Em 
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To quench the devil's thirst
B B 2
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The law they swore they'd get him
Em Em 
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But the devil got him first
On the 1st of April, 1954,
Am Am 
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B B 2
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a federal man sent word
Em Em 
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he'd better make that run no more
I got 200 agents coverin' the state,
B B 2
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whatever road he takes
Em Em 
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you know we'll get him short his fate
My son, his daddy told him,
make this run your last
B B 2
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You're all filled up with
hundred proof,
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you're all tuned up and gassed
B B 2
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Em Em 
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But don't take any chances,
if you can't get through
B B 2
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I'd rather have you back again
Em Em 
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than all that mountain dew
E E 
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A A 
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And there was thunder, thunder
E E 
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Em Em 
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over Thunder Row
B B 2
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Thunder was his engine,
E E 
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white lightning was his load
A A 
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Am Am 
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There was moonshine, moonshine
Em Em 
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to quench the devil's thirst
B B 2
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All they swore they'd get him,
Em Em 
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but the devil got him first
C C 
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Em Em 
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Verse 2
He come roaring out of Harlan,
revving up his mill
B B 2
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He shot the gap at Cumberland
Em Em 
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and screamed by Maynard Hill
With G -Men on his taillights,
roadblocks up ahead
B B 2
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The mountain boy took roads
Em Em 
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that even angels fear to tread
He come blazin' through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
B B 2
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Just outside of Bearden,
Em Em 
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they'd made the fatal strike
He left the road at nine,
yeah, that's all there is to say
B B 2
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The devil got the moonshine
Em Em 
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and the mountain boy that day
E E 
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A A 
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And there was thunder, thunder,
E E 
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A A 
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over Thunder Road
B B 2
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Thunder was his engine,
Em Em 
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white lightning was his load
Am Am 
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And there was moonshine,
Em Em 
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moonshine,
quench the devil's thirst
B B 2
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The law they swore they'd get him,
E E 
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Em Em 
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but the devil got him first
B B 2
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The law they never got him,
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G G 
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cause the devil got him first
Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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Em Em 
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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