Copperhead Road

Lyrics by：Steve Earle

Composed by：Steve Earle

Produced by：Steve Earle/Tony Brown

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here

He only come to town about twice a year

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line

Everybody knew that he made moonshine

Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad

Headed up the holler with everything he had

Before my time but I've been told

He never come back from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

He never come back from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big-block Dodge

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

"Johnson County Sheriff" painted on the side

He just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

Well him and my uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

And then the Sheriff came around in the middle of the night

Heard Mama cryin' knew somethin' wasn't right

He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

He never come back from Copperhead Road