Thursday #73-

[dukedogsmom]

That bottomless pit would be a killer! I had a chance to try real moonshine from North Carolina one time but the smell was enough of a reason not to. I'll bet it burned until it left your body.

[lbaker]

OKEY DOKEY SMOKEY VAL, an "out of body experience" it is. Bring it onnnn. Thanks ya'll. sheez, now I'm even talkin' Moonshiner

[Logan]

NC Moonshine might just cut through this garbage that is in my head and chest.......I drank hot Saki on my birthday for that very reason!!!!

I'm very late joining in today, but hope you all had a great Thursday!!!!

Logan

[lbaker]

OK Logan, maybe we should just stick with the "Sweet Southern Tea" Thanks for being around! Next time I have some money (hah!) I'll treat for a Mimosa and some Bay Crab Eggs Benedict and we can sit out on the veranda! HOOO BOY!

[slick]

Well, here I am late again and missed the whole afternoon's party. Work got in the way.
So just got home and ready to parteee but being on the West Coast I think I'm the only one up right now. I'm just going to fix myself a BM and snuggle by the fire for a bit.

I tried moonshine once years ago. I'm still recovering.

Oh yea, my car hit 100,000 kms today on the way to work. What's that in miles??

[lbaker]

OK you oldsters, what was that movie with whatshisname that played the "moonshiner" in his old truck? Going down the road? You know.. HAH! James Mitchum.. wasn't that it??

[slick]

Don't have a clue Laurie but here's a little song to sing you to sleep......

The Moonshiner


I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler,
I'm a long way from home
And if you don't like me,
Well, leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry,
I'll drink when I'm dry
And if moonshine don't kill me,
I'll live til I die

I've been a moonshiner for many a year
I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer
I'll go to some hollow, I'll set up my still
And I'll make you a gallon for a ten shilling bill

I'll go to some hollow in this count-er-y
Ten gallons of wash I can go on a spree
No women to follow, the world is all mine
I love none so well as I love the moonshine

Oh, moonshine, dear moonshine, oh, how I love thee
You killed me old father, but ah you try me
Now bless all moonshiners and bless all moonshine
Their breath smells as sweet as the dew on the vine

[gini]

What in the devil are you two up to at this hour of the evening?

Lord, I could hear you singing way down here in So. CA.

[lbaker]

Dang Slick, you're pushing it. I think that's almost the song they played in the movie! Whaat was that movie? Come'on David, you know it. Sheeet, I'll have to wake up in the middle of the night and post it when I thunk of it I know, I'll Ask Jeeves! OH, ROBERT MICHUM (sp?) not James, (silly me, I was thinkng of James Mitchner, the author, not the actor)

[gini]

Mizz Baker......could it be Thunder Road...........with Robert Mitchum

I have to tell you I think he was one of the sexiest men on the screen in those there daze................

[gini]

HERE'S THE CHORDED VERSION ON THUNDER ROAD
TRANSPOSED BY RICK BENSON


THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD
BY ROBERT MITCHUM
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NOW LET ME TELL THE STORY, I CAN TELL IT ALL
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ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN BOY WHO RAN ILLEGAL ALCOHOL

HIS DADDY MADE THE WHISKEY, SON, HE DROVE THE LOAD
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WHEN HIS ENGINE ROARED,
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THEY CALLED THE HIGHWAY THUNDER ROAD.
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SOMETIMES INTO ASHVILLE, SOMETIMES MEMPHIS TOWN
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THE REVENOORS CHASED HIM BUT THEY COULDN'T RUN HIM
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DOWN
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EACH TIME THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD HIM,

HIS ENGINE WOULD EXPLODE
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HE'D GO BY LIKE THEY WERE STANDIN' STILL ON THUNDER
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ROAD.
CHORUS
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AND THERE WAS THUNDER, THUNDER OVER THUNDER ROAD
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THUNDER WAS HIS ENGINE, AND WHITE LIGHTNING WAS HIS

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LOAD

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THERE WAS MOONSHINE, MOONSHINE TO QUENCH THE DEVIL'S THIRST
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THE LAW THEY SWORE THEY'D GET HIM, BUT THE DEVIL GOT
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HIM FIRST.
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ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, NINETEEN FIFTY-FOUR
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A FEDERAL MAN SENT WORD HE'D BETTER MAKE HIS RUN NO
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MORE

HE SAID TWO HUNDRED AGENTS WERE COVERIN' THE STATE
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WHICHEVER ROAD HE TRIED TO TAKE, THEY'D GET HIM SURE AS
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FATE.

SON, HIS DADDY TOLD HIM, MAKE THIS RUN YOUR LAST
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YOUR TANK IS FILLED WITH HUNDRED-PROOF,
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YOU'RE ALL TUNED UP AND GASSED

NOW, DON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES, IF YOU CAN'T GET THROUGH
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I'D RATHER HAVE YOU BACK AGAIN THAN ALL THAT MOUNTAIN

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DEW
CHORUS

ROARIN' OUT OF HARLAN, REVVING' UP HIS MILL
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HE SHOT THE GAP AT CUMBERLAND,
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AND SCREAMED BY MAYNORDSVILLE

WITH G-MEN ON HIS TAILLIGHTS, ROADBLOCKS UP AHEAD
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THE MOUNTAIN BOY TOOK ROADS THAT EVEN ANGELS FEARED
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TO TREAD.

BLAZING' RIGHT THROUGH KNOXVILLE, OUT ON KINGSTON PIKE
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THEN RIGHT OUTSIDE OF BEARDON, THEY MADE THE FATAL
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STRIKE

HE LEFT THE ROAD AT NINETY, THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO SAY
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THE DEVIL GOT THE MOONSHINE AND THE MOUNTAIN BOY
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THAT DAY

CHORUS

[lbaker]

THAT'S IT GINI! THUNDER ROAD!!!! OH, and you even spelled his name right! I'm so embarrassed... my mom used to date this guy that looked JUST like him. I used to drool when he would come by! What a hunk! I was just about to call you to vent about my lack of brain cells!

[slick]

Originally posted by gini
Lord, I could hear you singing way down here in So. CA.

We're warming up for next July.....

Come on everyone...let's sing

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.


Are we the Three Amigos or what???

[gini]

One of my all time favorite movies with Robert Mitchum in the lead was Foreign Intrigue............it had this great music in the background..............I just looked it up and it was made in YIKES!

1956........................................

[lbaker]

EEEIIII HAH!