[Chords]
      xx0232
      320003
  320013


[Intro]

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[Instrumental 
             
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Break]
             
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[Verse]

Well my name's

 John Lee Pett

imore

Same as my dad

dy and his dad

dy before

You hardly eve

r saw Grandadd

y down here

He only come t

o town about t

wice a year

He'd buy a hun

dred pounds of

 yeast and som

e copper line

Everybody knew

 that he made 

moonshine
             
Now the revenu

             
e man wanted G

     
randaddy bad

He headed up t

he holler with

 everything he

 had
             
'Fore my time 

         
but I've been 


told

He never come 

back from Copp

erhead Road

[Instrumental 
             
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Break]
           
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[Verse]

Now Daddy ran 

whiskey in a b

ig block Dodge

Bought it at a

n auction at t

he Mason's Lod

ge

Johnson County

 Sheriff paint

ed on the side

Just shot a co

at of primer t

hen he looked 

inside

Well him and m

y uncle tore t

hat engine dow

n

I still rememb

er that rumbli

n' sound
             
When the Sheri

              
ff came around

         
 in the middle

        
 of the night

Heard mama cry

in', knew some

thing wasn't r

ight
             
He was headed 

              
down to Knoxvi

             
lle with the w

  
eekly load

You could smel

l the whiskey 

burnin' down C

opperhead Road

[Intrumental Break]
                         

[Guitar Solo]
             
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[Verse]

I volunteered 

for the Army o

n my birthday

They draft the

 white trash f

irst, 'round h

ere anyway

I done two tou

rs of duty in 

Vietnam

I came home wi

th a brand new

 plan

I take the see

d from Columbi

a and Mexico

I just plant i

t up the holle

r down Copperh

ead Road
             
And now the D.

             
E.A.'s got a c

          
hopper in the 


air

I wake up scre

aming like I'm

 back over the

re
             
I learned a th

              
ing or two fro

         
m Charlie don'

      
t you know

You better sta

y away from Co

pperhead Road

[Instrumental Break]
                         


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