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