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Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore,
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Same as my daddy and his daddy's before.
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You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here
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He'd only come to town about twice a year
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Buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line.
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Everybody knew that he made moonshine.
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Now the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad.
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Headed up the holler with everything he had.
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Before my time, but I've been told.
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You never come back from Copperhead Road.
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Granddaddy ran whiskey in a big black Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
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Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
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Heard mama crying that 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 whisky burning down Copperhead Road.
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I volunteered for the army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first, round hear anyway
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Now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
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I wake up screamin, like I'm back over there
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I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know.
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You better stay away from Copperhead Road.
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Yea Copperhead road
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Copper head road
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Copper head rooooooaaaad