Karaoké The Ballad of Thunder Road Thunder Road (film) (Robert Mitchum)

Let me tell the story

I can tell it all about the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol

His daddy made the whiskey

The 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 standin' still on Thunder Road

And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road

Thunder was his engine and white lightnin' was his load

And 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

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

He said Two hundred agents were coverin' the state

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

Son his daddy told him

Make this run your last

The 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 lightnin' was his load

And there was moonshine

Moonshine to quench the devil's thirst

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

Roarin' out of Harlan

Revvin' up his mill

He shot the Gap at Cumberland and streamed by Maynardville

With G men on his tail light

Road blocks up ahead

The mountain boy took roads that even angels fear to tread

Blazin' right through Knoxville

Out on Kingston Pike

Then right outside of Bearden 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

Thunder, thunder over Thunder Road

Thunder was his engine and white lightnin' was his load

Moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst

The law they never got him 'cos the devil got him first

Law they never got him 'cos the devil got him first