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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
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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
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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