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Copperhead road Steve Earle D Well my name's John Lee Pettimore Same as my daddy and his daddy before D You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here He only came to town about twice a year D He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line Everybody knew that he made moonshine G C G Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad D He headed up the holler with everything he had G C G It's before my time but I've been told D He never came back from Copperhead Road Intro RIFF] Verse D Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge D Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside D Well him and my uncle tore that engine down I still remember that rumblin' sound G C G Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night D Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right G C G He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load D (LET RING) You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road [BREAK] D MUTE 4x Intro RIFF 2x G C G D 2X Verse D I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway D I done two tours of duty in Vietnam And I came home with a brand new plan D I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road G C 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 C G I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know D You better stay away from Copperhead Road [BREAK] D MUTE 4x Outro Intro RIFF 4x