The Ballad Of Thunder Road-Robert Mitchum

[ti:The Ballad Of Thunder Road] [ar:Robert Mitchum] [al:Original Hits - Rock 'N' Roll] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad Of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum [00:01.97]Written by：Don Raye/Robert Mitchum [00:03.94]Now let me tell the story I can tell it all [00:06.83] [00:07.38]About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol [00:10.91]His daddy made the whiskey son he drove the load [00:14.58]When his engine roared [00:16.10]They called the highway thunder road [00:17.76] [00:18.38]Sometimes into Ashville sometimes Memphis town [00:22.02]The revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down [00:25.45]Each time they thought they had him [00:27.27]His engine would explode [00:29.07]He'd go by like they were standing still on thunder road [00:32.52]And there was thunder thunder over thunder road [00:36.05] [00:36.55]Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load [00:40.02]There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst [00:43.89]The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first [00:47.16] [00:47.71]On the first of April nineteen fifty four [00:50.94] [00:51.45]A federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more [00:55.18]He said two hundred agents were covering the state [00:58.73]Whichever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate [01:02.56]Son his daddy told him make this run your last [01:06.34]Your tank is filled with hundred proof [01:08.11]You're all tuned up and gassed [01:10.09]Now don't take any chances if you can't get through [01:13.58]I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain dew [01:16.87]And there was thunder thunder over thunder road [01:21.21]Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load [01:24.34]There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst [01:28.46]The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first [01:32.22]Roaring out of Harlan revving up his mill [01:36.21]He shot the gap at Cumberland [01:37.69]And screamed by Maynardville [01:39.80]With g men on his taillights roadblocks up ahead [01:43.39]The mountain boy took roads that even angels feared to tread [01:46.74] [01:47.65]Blazing right through Knoxville out on Kingston pike [01:50.96]Then right outside of beard on there they made the fatal strike [01:54.57]He left the road at ninety that's all there is to say [01:58.10]The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day [02:01.41]And there was thunder thunder over thunder road [02:05.66]Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load [02:08.76]There was moonshine moonshine to quench the devil's thirst [02:13.14]The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first [02:16.91]The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first [02:21.18]Thunder thunder thunder road