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TABBY CAT MUSIC ARCHIVES
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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net Alice Franceschini
Date: July 9, 1999
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Written by:
Note: Here is my rendition of this song but not up against the recording.
This song is from the movie Thunderoad that Robert Mitchum starred in.
THUNDEROAD Robert Mitchum
G D
I can tell the story - I can tell it all - about a mountain boy - who ran
C D
illegal alco-hol
G
His daddy made the whiskey - his son who drove the load
D C G
When his engine roared - They called the highway - thunde-road.
G
Sometimes into Ashville - sometimes Memphis town
D C D
The revenuers chased him - but couldn't run him down
G
Each time they thought they had him - his engine would explode
D C G
And he's go by like they were standing - still on thunde-road.
Chorus:
Am C D
And there was thunder - thunder - over thunderoad
Am C G
Thunder was his engine - and whitelighting was his load
Cm G
And there was moonshine - moonshine quench the devil's thirst
Am C G
The law they swore they'd get him - but the devil got him first
G D C
On the first of April - 1954 - a federal man sent word - he'd better make his
D
run no more.
G
He sent 200 agents - word covering the state
D C G
Whichever road - he'd try to take - they'd get him sure as fate
G
Son his daddy told him - make this run your last
D C D
The tank is filled with 100 proof - you're all tune up in gas
G D
Now don't take any chances - if you can't get through - I'd rather had you
back again
C G
Then over that mountain dew
Chorus
G D
Roaring out of Harlem - reving up his mill - he shot the gap at Cumberland
C G
And screamed by Mayardville - with G men on his tail light - road blocks up
ahead
D C G
The mountain boy took roads - that even angels feared to tread
G
Blazing through Knoxville - out on kingston straights
D C D
Then right outside of Beardings - there he made the fatal strike
G D
He left the road at 90 - that's all there is to say - The devil got the
C G
moonshine And the mountain boy that day
go to chorus.
