Ballad of Thunder Road

by Robert Mitchum Movie

BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD
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Let me tell the story, I can tell it all
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About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol
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His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load
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When his engine roared, they called the highway Thunder Road.
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Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town
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The revenuers chased him but they couldn’t run him down
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Each time they thought they had him, his engine would explode
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He'd go by like they were standin’ still on Thunder Road.
 
(CHORUS)
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And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road
 
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Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was his load 
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There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the Devil’s thirst
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The law they swore they'd get him, but the Devil got him first.