The Ballad Of Thunder Road - Ver 2

Cm Let me tell the story I can tell it all G7 Cm About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol His daddy made the whiskey, his son he drove the load G7 Cm When his engine roared they called the highway thunder road C Sometimes into Ashville sometimes Memphis town G7 C The revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down Each time they thought they had him his engine would explode G7 C He'd go by like they were standing still on thunder road F C (And there was thunder, thunder over thunder road) G7 Cm Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load Fm Cm (And there was moonshine, moonshine quench the devil's thirst) G7 Cm The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first On the first of April nineteen fifty-four G7 Cm A federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more He said two hundred agents were covering the state G7 Cm Whichever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate C Son his daddy told him make this run your last G7 C Your tank is filled with hundred-proof you're all tuned up and gassed Now don't take any chances if you can't get through G7 C I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain dew Cm Roaring out of Harlan revving up his mill G7 Cm He shot the gap at Cumberland and screamed by Maynardville With g-men on his taillights roadblocks up ahead G7 Cm The mountain boy took roads that even angels feared to tread C Blazing right through Knoxville out on Kingston pike G7 C Then right outside of Bearden there they made the fatal strike He left the road at ninety that's all there is to say G7 C The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day G7 Cm The law they never got him cause the devil got him first. (Thunder, thunder, thunder road)