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Ballad of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum

Written by：Don Raye/Robert Mitchum

Now let me tell the story I can tell it all

About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol

His daddy made the whiskey son he drove the load

When his engine roared

They called the highway thunder road

Sometimes into Ashville sometimes Memphis town

The revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down

Each time they thought they had him

His engine would explode

He'd go by like they were standing still on thunder road

And there was thunder thunder over thunder road

Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load

There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst

The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first

On the first of April nineteen fifty four

A federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more

He said two hundred agents were covering the state

Whichever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate

Son his daddy told him make this run your last

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

I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain dew

And there was thunder thunder over thunder road

Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load

There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst

The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first

Roaring out of Harlan revving up his mill

He shot the gap at Cumberland

And screamed by Maynardville

With g men on his taillights roadblocks up ahead

The mountain boy took roads that even angels feared to tread

Blazing right through Knoxville out on Kingston pike

Then right outside of beard on there they made the fatal strike

He left the road at ninety that's all there is to say

The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day

And there was thunder thunder over thunder road

Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load

There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst

The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first

The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first

Thunder thunder thunder road