How to Play The Ballad Of Thunder Road on Guitar?

Robert Mitchum - The Ballad Of Thunder Road can be played in the key of C using the C, G7, F chords. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For G7, To play G7, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute A, high E. For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play The Ballad Of Thunder Road with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Robert Mitchum - The Ballad Of Thunder Road Chords

Chord reference C, G7, F

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

[C]Let me tell the story, I can tell it all [G7]About the mountain boy who ran illegal alco[C]hol [C]His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load [G7]When his engine roared, they called the highway thunder [C]road.

[C]Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town The [G7]revenuers chased him but they couldn’t run him [C]down Each [C]time they thought they had him, his engine would explode He’d [G7]go by like they were standing still on thunder [C]road.

And there was [F]thunder, thunder [C]over thunder road [G7]Thunder was his engine, and white [C]lightning was his load There was [F]moonshine, moonshine to [C]quench the devil’s thirst The [G7]law they swore they’d get him, but the devil got him [C]first.

[C]On the first of April, nineteen fifty-four A [G7]federal man sent word he’d better make his run no [C]more He [C]said two hundred agents were covering the state Which[G7]ever road he tried to take, they’d get him sure as [C]fate.

[C]Son, his daddy told him, make this run your last Your [G7]tank is filled with 100-proof, you’re all tuned up and [C]gassed Now, [C]don’t take any chances, if you can’t get through I’d [G7]rather have you back again than all that mountain [C]dew.

[C]Roaring out of Harlan, revvin’ up his mill He [G7]shot the gap at Cumberland, and [C]screamed by Maynardville With [C]G-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead The [G7]mountain boy took roads that even angels feared to [C]tread.

[C]Blazin’ right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike Then [G7]right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal [C]strike He [C]left the road at ninety, that’s all there is to say The [G7]devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that [C]day.

Artist Robert Mitchum

Album Single

Genres Pop

Year 1958

Key C

Robert Mitchum - The Ballad Of Thunder Road can be played in the key of C using the C, G7, F chords.

For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For G7, To play G7, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute A, high E.
For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play The Ballad Of Thunder Road with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.