Let Me
Tell tell the story I can tell it all
About the mountain boy
who ran illegal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey
The sun he drove the load
And when his engines roared
They called the highway Thun
der Road
Sometimes into Asheville
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
Standing still on Thunder Road
And there was thunder, thunder
Over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine
White lightning 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 1st of April, 1954,
a federal man sent word
he'd better make that run no more
I got 200 agents coverin' the state,
whatever road he takes
you know we'll get him short his fate
My son, his daddy told him,
make this run your last
You're all filled up with
hundred proof,
you're all tuned up and gassed
But 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 Row
Thunder was his engine,
white lightning was his load
There was moonshine, moonshine
to quench the devil's thirst
All they swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him first
He come roaring out of Harlan,
revving up his mill
He shot the gap at Cumberland
and screamed by Maynard Hill
With G -Men on his taillights,
roadblocks up ahead
The mountain boy took roads
that even angels fear to tread
He come blazin' through Knoxville,
out on Kingston Pike
Just outside of Bearden,
they'd made the fatal strike
He left the road at nine,
yeah, that's all there is to say
The devil got the moonshine
and the mountain boy that day
And there was thunder, thunder,
over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine,
white lightning was his load
And there was moonshine,
moonshine,
quench the devil's thirst
The law they swore they'd get him,
but the devil got him first
The law they never got him,
cause the devil got him first
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