Copperhead Road-Steve Earle

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[00:43.65]Well my names john lee pettimore
[00:50.08]Same as my daddy and his daddy before
[00:56.13]You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here
[01:02.50]He only came to town about twice a year
[01:08.17]Hed buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
[01:14.92]Everybody knew that he made moonshine
[01:20.63]Now the revenue man wanted grandaddy bad
[01:23.62]He headed up the holler with everything he had
[01:27.19]Its before my time but I've been told
[01:29.81]He never came back from copperhead road
[01:45.18]Now daddy ran the whiskey in a big block dodge
[01:51.69]Bought it at an auction at the masons lodge
[01:57.81]Johnson county sheriff painted on the side
[02:03.58]Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
[02:09.71]Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
[02:15.89]I still remember that rumblin sound
[02:22.01]Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
[02:25.26]Heard mama cryin knew something wasnt right
[02:28.06]He was headed down to knoxville with the weekly load
[02:31.12]You could smell the whiskey burnin down copperhead road
[03:06.46]I volunteered for the army on my birthday
[03:12.63]They draft the white trash first round here anyway
[03:18.33]I done two tours of duty in vietnam
[03:24.57]And I came home with a brand new plan
[03:29.69]I take the seed from colombia and mexico
[03:35.93]I plant it up the holler down copperhead road
[03:41.69]Well the d e a s got a chopper in the air
[03:45.09]I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
[03:47.84]I learned a thing or two from ol charlie don't you know
[03:50.27]You better stay away from copperhead road
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