LYR Copperhead Road by Steve Earl
Jen
Here they are, from memory:
COPPERHEAD ROAD
Well my name's John Lee Petimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
Ya hardly ever saw grandaddy round here
Only come to town about twice a year
Buy a hundred pounds of year and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
The revenue man wanted grandaddy bad
Headed up the holler with everything he had
It's before my time but I've been told
He never come back from copperhead road
Copperhead road, copperhead road...
Well my daddy ran the whiskey in a big black dodge
But it at the auction at the Mason's lodge
__??__ County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer when he looked inside
He and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumbling sound
Sherriff came callin in the middle of the night
Heard momma cryin, knew somethin wasn't right
Headed down to Knoxvill with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burning along copperhead road
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Joined the army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first round here anyway
I did two tours of duty in Vietnam
I came home with a brand new plan
Take the seed from Columbia and Mexico
Plant it up the holler long copperhead road
Now the DEA's got a chopper in the air
Wake up screamin like I'm back over there
Learned a little thing from charlie don't ya know
Ya never come back from copperhead road
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sorry for any mistakes, it is by memory...
JenS
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