The Ballad Of Thunder Road chords by Tex Williams
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Verse 1
(A minor) (G sharpdim) (E major) (A major) (A minor)
Let me tell the story,
I can tell it all
(E major) About the mountain boy who
ran (A minor) il legal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey,
son, he drove the load
(E major) When his engine roared
They called the (A minor) highway thunder road
(A major) Sometimes into Ashville,
sometimes memphis town
The (E major) revenuers chased him but they
(A major) couldn't run him down
Each time they thought they had him
His engine would explode
(E major) He'd go by like (D major) they were standin'
(A major) still on thunder road
(D major) Thunder,
Verse 2
thunder (A major) over thunder road
(E major) Thunder was his engine,
and white (A major) lightning was his load
(D minor) Moonshine,
moonshine to (A minor) quench the devil's thirst
The (E major) law they never got him,
cause the (A minor) devil (E major) got him (A minor) first
(E major) (A major) (A minor)
Verse 3
On the first of april, nineteen fifty- four
The (E major) federal man sent word he'd
better (A minor) make his (C major) run no (A minor) more
He said two hundred agents were
coverin' the state
(E major) Whichever road he tried to take, they'd
(A minor) get him sure as fate
Son, his daddy told him, (A major)
make this run your last
Your (E major) tank is filled with (D major) hundred- proof
You're (A major) all tuned up and gassed
Now, don't take any chances,
and if you can't get through
I'd (D major) rather (E major) have you back again than
(A major) all that mountain dew
Verse 4
(D major) Thunder, thunder (A major) over thunder road
(E major) Thunder was his engine,
and white (A major) lightning was his load
(D minor) Moonshine,
moonshine to (A minor) quench the devil's thirst
The (E major) law they never got him,
cause the (A major) devil (E major) got him (A minor) first (E major)
(A major) (A minor)
Verse 5
(B flat major) (B flat minor)
Roarin' out of Harlem, revving up his mill
(F major) He shot the gap at Cumberland
And (B flat major) screamed by (B flat minor) Maynordsville
With t- men on his taillights,
roadblocks up ahead
The (F major) mountain boy took roads that even
(B flat minor) an gels feared to tread (F major)
Verse 6
(B flat major) Blazing' right through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
Then (F major) right outside of Beacon,
there they (B flat major) made the fatal strike
He left the road at ninety,
that's all there is to say
The (F major) devil got the moonshine and the
(B flat major) mountain boy that day
(E flat major) Thunder, thunder
Verse 7
(B flat major) over thunder road
(F major) Thunder was his engine,
and white (B flat major) lightning was his load
(E flat minor) Moonshine,
moonshine to (B flat minor) quench the devil's thirst
The (F major) law they never got him,
cause the (B flat minor) devil (F major) got him (B flat major) first
(F major) The law they never got him,
cause the (B flat minor) devil got (F major) him first (B flat minor)
The Ballad Of Thunder Road
Tex Williams
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