Key:
Chorus:
[Intro]
D
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EACH VERSE LINE
[Verse]
D
Well my name's John
Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and
his daddy before
D
You hardly ever saw
Grandaddy down
here
He only came to town
about twice a
year
D
He'd buy a hundred
pounds of yeast and
some copper line
Everybody knew that
he made moonshine
G
C
G
Now the revenue man
wanted Grandaddy
bad
D
He headed up the
holler with
everything he had
G
C G
It's before my time
but I've been
told
D
He never came back
from Copperhead
Road
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[Verse]
D
Now Daddy ran the
whiskey in a big
block Dodge
Bought it at an
auction at the
Mason's Lodge
D
Johnson County
Sheriff painted on
the side
Just shot a coat of
primer then he
looked inside
D
Well him and my
uncle tore that
engine down
I still remember
that rumblin'
sound
G
C
G
Well the sheriff
came around in the
middle of the
night
D
Heard mama cryin',
knew something
wasn't right
G
C G
He was headed down
to Knoxville with
the weekly load
D (LET RING)
You could smell the
whiskey burnin' down
Copperhead Road
[Break]
D N.C. x4
[Instrumental]
x2
G C G D
[Verse]
D
I volunteered for
the Army on my
birthday
They draft the white
trash first,'round
here anyway
D
I done two tours of
duty in Vietnam
And I came home with
a brand new plan
D
I take the seed from
Colombia and
Mexico
I plant it up the
holler down
Copperhead Road
G
C
G
Well the D.E.A.'s
got a chopper in the
air
D
I wake up screaming
like I'm back over
there
G
C
G
I learned a thing or
two from ol' Charlie
don't you know
D
You better stay away
from Copperhead
Road
[Break]
D N.C. 4x
[Outro]
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