Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Ballad of the Thunder Road, artist - Robert Mitchum. Album song Beach Boy, in the genre Джаз
Date of issue: 24.02.2015
Record label: Dial
Song language: English
Ballad of the Thunder Road |
Now 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 |
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 |
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 |