Copperhead Road Lyrics - Live In Nashville 1995 - Steve Earle

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore 

Same as my daddy and his daddy before 

You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here 

He only come to town about twice a year 

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line 

Everybody knew that he made moonshine 

Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad 

He headed up the holler with everything he had 

'Fore my time but I've been told 

He never come back from Copperhead Road 

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Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big black Dodge 

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge 

Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side 

Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside 

Well him and my uncle tore that engine down 

I still remember that rumblin' sound 

When the sheriff came around in the middle of the night 

Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right 

He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load 

You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road 

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I volunteered for the Army on my birthday 

They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway 

I done two tours of duty in Vietnam 

I came home with a brand new plan 

I take the seed from Columbia and Mexico 

I just plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road 

And now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air 

I wake up screaming like I'm back over there 

I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know 

You better stay away from Copperhead Road 

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