Copperhead Road chords by Steve Earle

[Intro]

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[Verse]

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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


[INTRO RIFF]


[Verse]

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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


[BREAK]

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INTRO RIFF 2x  G  C G  D 2X


[Verse]

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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


[BREAK]
D  MUTE  4x


[Outro]

INTRO RIFF 4x