Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

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well my name’s john lee pettimore

same as my Daddy and his Daddy before
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you hardly ever saw granDaddy down here

he only came to town about twice a year
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he’d buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line

everybody knew that he made moonshine
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now the revenue man wanted granDaddy bad
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he headed up the holler with everything he had
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it’s before my time but i’ve been told
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he never came back from copperhead road

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now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block dodge

bought it at an auction at the mason’s lodge
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johnson county sheriff painted on the side

just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
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well him and my uncle tore that engine down

i still remember that rumblin’ sound
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well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
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heard mama cryin’ , knew something wasn’t right
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he was headed down to knoxville with the weekly load
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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
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i done two tours of duty in vietnam

and i came home with a brand new plan
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i take the seed from colombia and mexico

i plant it up the holler down copperhead road
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well the D . E . A . ‘s got a chopper in the air
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i wake up screaming like i’m back over there
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i learned a thing or two from ol’ charlie don’t you know
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you better stay away from copperhead road

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copperhead road