Tell tell the story I can tell it all
His daddy made the whiskey
The sun he drove the load
And when his engines roared
They called the highway Thun
But they couldn't run him down
Each time they thought they had him
He'd go by like they were
Standing still on Thunder Road
And there was thunder, thunder
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,
he'd better make that run no more
I got 200 agents coverin' the state,
you know we'll get him short his fate
My son, his daddy told him,
You're all filled up with
you're all tuned up and gassed
But don't take any chances,
I'd rather have you back again
than all that mountain dew
And there was thunder, thunder
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,
He shot the gap at Cumberland
and screamed by Maynard Hill
With G -Men on his taillights,
The mountain boy took roads
that even angels fear to tread
He come blazin' through Knoxville,
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,
white lightning was his load
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
