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, son, he drove the load
 When his engine roared
 They called the highway thunder road
 Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes memphis town
 The revenoors 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 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 first of april, nineteen fifty-four
 A federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more
 He said two hundred agents were coverin' the state
 Whichever road he tried to take, they'd get him sure as fate
 Son, his daddy told him, make this run your last
 Your 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 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
 Roarin' out of harlan, revving' up his mill
 He shot the gap at cumberland,
 And screamed by maynordsville
 With g-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead
 The mountain boy took roads that even angels feared to tread
 Blazing' right through Knoxville, out on kingston pike
 Then right outside of Beardon, 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
 And there was thunder, thunder over thunder road
 Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was his load
 And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
 The law they never got him, but the devil got him first
 Law they never got him, but the devil got him first (Thunder, thunder, thunder road)