Jim and Jesse - Ballad of Thunder Road Chords

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Now let me tell a story, I can tell it all, [C] About a mountain boy who ran the illegal alcohol.
His daddy made the whiskey, the sonny drove the load, And when his engine roared, they called the highway Thunder [F] Road.
_ Sometimes in DuPageville, sometimes Memphis town, [C] The revenues they chased [F] him, but they couldn't run him down.
Each time they thought they had him, his engine would explode.
[C] He'd go by like they were [F] standing still on Thunder Road.
There [Bb] was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
[C] Thunder was his engine and white [Fm] lightning was his load.
There [Bbm] was moonshine, [Fm] moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
[C] A lot of their school they'd give him, but the devil [Fm] got him first.
_ _ _ _ _ On the first of April, _ 1954, [C] A federal man said, Bert, you'd [Fm] better make his run no more.
He said two hundred agents were covering the state.
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Whichever road he tried to take, [Fm] they'd get him sure as [F] fate.
Now sonny's daddy told him, make this run your last, [C] Your tank is filled with hundred proof, [F] you're all tuned up in gas.
Now don't take any chances, if you can't get through, [C] I'd rather have you back again [F] than all that mountain dew.
There [Bb] was thunder, thunder [F] over Thunder Road.
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Thunder was his engine and [F] white lightning was [Fm] his load.
[Bbm] There was moonshine, [Fm] moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
[C] A lot of their school they'd give him, but the devil [Fm] got him first.
_ _ _ Rolling out of Harlem, revving up his mill, [C] He shot the gap at Cumberland [Fm] and screamed through Bandersville.
With G-Man on his tail light, load blocks up ahead, [C] That mountain boy took the roads that [F] even angels feared to tread.
_ Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike, [C] Then right outside of [F] Beardenburg, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at nighty, that's all there is to say, [C] The devil got the [F] moonshine and the mountain boy that day.
There was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
[C] Thunder was his engine and [Fm] white lightning was his load.
There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst.
[C] A lot of their school they'd give him, but the devil [Fm] got him _ first.
A lot [C] of their school they'd give him, but the devil got [Cm] him first. _
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