The Ballad of Thunder Road Karaoke - Thunder Road (film) (Robert Mitchum)

This title is a cover of The Ballad of Thunder Road as made famous by Thunder Road (film)

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With backing vocals (with or without vocals in the KFN version)

Tempo: variable (around 129 BPM)

In the same key as the original: Cm, C

Duration: 02:33 - Preview at: 01:16

Release date: 1958
Genres: Film & TV Soundtracks, Country, In English
Original songwriters: Robert Mitchum, Don Raye

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Lyrics The Ballad of Thunder Road

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

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