Key: G major
Verse 1
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Well, let me tell a story, I can tell it all
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About the mountain boy
the sun he drove the lull
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they called the highway Thunder Road
sometimes Memphis town
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The revenuers, they chased him,
his engine would explode
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And he'd go by like they were standing still
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on Thunder Road
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And there was moonshine, moonshine
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but the devil got him first
On the 1st of April, 1954,
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A federal man sent word
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he'd better make his run no more.
He said 200 engines
were covering the state,
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Whichever road he tried to take,
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they'd get him sure as fate.
Now son, his daddy told him,
make this run your last,
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Your tank is filled with hundred proof,
if you can't get through
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I'd rather have you back again
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And there was thunder,
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And there was moonshine, moonshine
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but the devil got him first
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Pulling out of Nashville
and revving up his mill
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He shot the gap at Cumberland
and roadblocks up ahead
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That mountain boy took roads
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that even angels feared to tread
Roaring right through Knoxville
and out on Kingston Pike
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Then right outside of Bearden
All there is to say,
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the devil got his moonshine
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And the mountain boy that day,
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And there was moonshine, moonshine
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But the devil got him first
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But the devil got him first.
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