Cooperhead Road chords by Steve Earle

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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.
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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 come 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.
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side.
Just shot a coat of primer and they looked inside.
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 somethin 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.
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam.
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Columbia 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 screamin' like I'm back over there.
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I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know.
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You better stay away from Copperhead Road.