Copperhead Road Steve Earle Intro: D D D D Verse 1: D Well my name's John Lee Pettimore (D) (D) Same as my daddy and his daddy before (D) D You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here (D) (D) He only came to town about twice a year (D) D He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line (D) (D) Everybody knew that he made moonshine (D) G G Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad D He headed up the holler with everything he had G G It's before my time but I've been told (D*) He never came back from Copperhead Road Instrumental: D D D D G D G D Verse 2: D Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge (D) (D) Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge (D) D Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side (D) (D) Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside (D) D Well him and my uncle tore that engine down (D) (D) I still remember that rumblin' sound (D) G G Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night D Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right G G Headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load (D*) You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road Instrumental: [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] (back to regular strumming) D D D D G D G D Verse 3: D I volunteered for the Army on my birthday (D) (D) They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway (D) D I done two tours of duty in Vietnam (D) (D) And I came home with a brand new plan (D) D I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico (D) (D) I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road (D) G G Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air D I wake up screaming like I'm back over there G G I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know [D*] You better stay away from Copperhead Road Instrumental: [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] (back to regular strumming) D D D D G D G D Outro: [D] Copperhead Road.......Copperhead Road [D] Copperhead Road.......Copperhead Road