The Thunder Rolls

"The Thunder Rolls" is a song released by American Country music artist Garth Brooks. It debuted on his second album "No Fences" and also appears on "The Hits", "The Limited Series", and "Double Live". The song was written by Brooks and Pat Alger.

Alternative Metal band, Dead Season covers this song on their 2006 album "Rise". This cover contains the 3rd verse the original doesn't.

The music video for this song was the first music video ever to air on Great American Country, a country music network.

It was banned from CMT for a while before finally being shown on the network in the 1990s.

The Song

*Length: 3:42
*Key: D Minor

"The Thunder Rolls" tells the story of a wife waiting up late into the night for her husband. As he comes into the house, she smells another woman's perfume on him. All of this is set against the backdrop of a storm, representing the tribulation of the couple's marriage.

The song originally contained a third verse in which the woman runs to her dresser drawer to get a pistol, telling herself that she'll never again wonder where he is. However, producer Allen Reynolds felt it worked well with just two verses and the third verse never appeared on the studio version, although Brooks does sing it at concerts as is evidenced in the version included on "Double Live". The video to the single (which does not include the third verse) does have a scene where the woman kills her husband, while Brooks plays in the rain outside of their house. It should be noted that the wife in the video has a black eye. The video also contains scenes suggesting that domestic violence has played a large part in their lives, thus giving the wife more motive than the song suggests. The video won Music Video of the Year at the 1991 CMA Awards.

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIHfRnf_-IU "The Thunder Rolls" Music Video]
* [http://www.last.fm/music/Garth+Brooks/_/The+Thunder+Rolls last.fm The Thunder Rolls last.fm The Thunder Rolls]