{t:Copperhead Road}
{st:Steve Earle (Earle & Tony Brown, 1988)}


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Well [/] [D] my name's John Lee [/] Pettimore  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
[/] [D] Same as my daddy and his [/] daddy before [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
You [/] [D] hardly ever saw Grand- [/] daddy down here  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
He [/] [D] only came to town about [/] twice a year  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
He'd buy a [/] [D] hundred pounds of yeast and some [/] copper line  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
[/] [D] Everybody knew that he [/] made moonshine  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  


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


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Grand- [/] [D] Daddy ran the whiskey in a [/] big block Dodge [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
[/] [D] Bought it at an auction at the [/] Mason's Lodge [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
[/] [D] Johnson County Sheriff painted [/] on the side [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
Just [/] [D] shot a coat of primer then he [/] looked inside  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
Well [/] [D] him and my uncle tore that [/] engine down  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
I [/] [D] still remember that [/] rumblin' sound  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  


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


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I volun- [/] [D] teered for the Army on [/] my birthday  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
They draft the [/] [D] white trash first, 'round [/] here anyway  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
I done [/] [D] two tours of duty in [/] Vietnam   [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
[/] [D] I came home with a [/] brand new plan   [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
I take the [/] [D] seed from Colombia and [/] Mexico  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  
I'd [/] [D] plant it up the holler down [/] Copperhead Road  [/] [D]  [/] [D] [Riff]  


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


{c:Instrumental Outro}
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[/] [D] Whoa   [/] [D]     [/] [D]     [/] [D] Copperhead
[/] [D] Road   [/] [D]     [/] [D]     [/] [D] Copperhead
[/] [D] Road   [/] [D]     [/] [D]     [/] [D] Copperhead
[/] [D] Road   [/] [D]     [/] [D]     [/] [D↓]   


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