Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:38 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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.
[Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Lyrics form Thunder Road
I don’t know where it came from, but everything I’ve had from this area has been pretty good.
He got that name for busting a 10 cent popcorn machine in a bar.
There a guy hereabouts who can make white liquor. Its something around 170 proof and does a great job on paint brushes.
No, he did it because someone told him Obama's election meant death to all stereotypes.
It's pretty good, if you can keep it down!
Darn shame you can have a microbrewery but not a still.
Distill it. That will be more in his honor. Need to know how to make a good still?
http://www.moonshine-still.com/page10.htm
That will add a whole new dimension to your dandelion wine. :o)
Yes, Freedom and Liberty mean different things to different people. Soldiers fight and die for it. Nothing wrong with the Bootleggers perspective here.
Bottom line is... there are more important things than life as we perceive it in the world of form.(My opinion of course)
Tomorrow’s headlines should read “Obama KILLS Popcorn!”.
Shave the beard and take away the hat and you have my granddaddy. Hillbilly and country to the core.
“Honestly, of all the things to worry about right now.”
No kidding......
I remember this guy from the history channel.
Oh well. Blowing up a few stills sounds better.
Who’s worried?
You could probably even even make the case that the United States of America as envisioned by its founders really only lasted a few years before it adopted a very British approach to taxation, excessive use of Federal force, etc.
“So I credit the federal government for my husband being dead ...
Sounds like Pam was tired of him.”
In “hillbilly” lingo, saying “I credit...” is the same as you saying “I blame...”
Me too. Coming from hillbilly ancestry, I really enjoyed that program.
Looks like he got on the wrong side of the ethanol cartel. The “green energy” liberals want all the money for themselves.
/sarc
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