Copperhead Road

  {title: Copperhead Road}
{artist: Steve Earle}
{key: D}

{comment: Intro}
[D]

{comment: Verse 1}
[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]Now the revenue man wanted [C]Grandaddy [G]bad
[D]He headed up the holler with everything he had
[G]It's before my time but I've [C]been [G]told
[D]He never came back from Copperhead Road

{comment: Verse 2}
[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]Well the sheriff came around in the [C]middle of the [G]night
[D]Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right
[G]He was headed down to Knoxville with the [C]weekly [G]load
[D]You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

{comment: Break}
[D] N.C. x4

{comment: Instrumental x2}
[G] [C] [G][D]

{comment: Verse 3}
[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]Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper [C]in the [G]air
[D]I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
[G]I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie [C]don't you [G]know
[D]You better stay away from Copperhead Road

{comment: Break}
[D] N.C. x4