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