Tonart: C minor
Verse 1
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Let me tell the story, I can tell it all
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A
E
About the mountain boy who ran
His daddy made the whiskey,
son he drove the load
E
When his engine roared they called
A
the highway "Thunder Road"
E
Am
Sometimes in
Verse 2
E
to Ashville,
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E
sometimes Memphis town
The Revenuers chased him but
they couldn't run him down
C#m
E
Each time they thought they had him
his engine would explode
He'd go by like they were standing
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E
still on "Thunder Road"
Verse 3
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C#m
thunder over "Thunder Road"
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Thunder was his engine and
white lightening was his load
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Dm
And there was moonshine,
E
Am
moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
E
The law they swore they'd get him but
Am
the devil got him first
Verse 4
Am
On the first of April, 1954
E
A federal man sent word he'd better
Am
make his run no more
He said, "Two- hundred agents
were covering the state
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Which ever road he tried to take
Am
A
they'd get him sure as fate"
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A
"Son," his daddy
Verse 5
told him,
"Make this run your last
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The tank is filled with 100 proof,
A
you're all tuned up and gassed
Now don't take any chances,
if you can't get through
E
I'd rather have you back again than
Verse 6
A
thunder over "Thunder Road"
E
Thunder was his engine and white
A
lightening was his load
Dm
And there was moonshine,
E
moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
The law they swore they'd get him
C
but the devil got him first
Am
Roaring out of Harlan,
Verse 7
revving up his mill
E
He shot the Gap at Cumberland
Am
and streamed by Maynardville
With G men on his tail light,
road block up ahead
E
The mountain boy took roads
Am
that even angels fear to tread
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A
Blazing right
Verse 8
through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
E
Then right outside of Bearden, there
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A
they made the fatal strike
Am
A
He left the road at 90, that's
all there is to say
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The devil got the moonshine
A
and the mountain boy that day
Verse 9
A
thunder over "Thunder Road"
E
Thunder was his engine and
white lightening was his load
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Dm
And there was moonshine,
E
Am
moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
E
The law they never got him 'cause
Am
the devil got him first
E
Law they never got him 'cause
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Am
the devil got him first
(Thunder, thunder, thunder, oh)
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