Copperhead Road

D  
Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore,  
Same as my daddy and his daddy's before.  
You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here  
He'd only come to town about twice a year  
Buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line.  
                                      D7  
Everybody knew that he made moonshine.  
         G  
Now the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad.  
 D     
Headed up the holler with everything he had.  
 G       
Before my time, but I've been told.  
     D  
You never come back from Copperhead Road.  
  
      D  
Granddaddy ran whiskey in a big black Dodge  
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge  
Had Payne 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  
                                     D7  
I still remember that rumbling sound  
          G  
Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night  
 D   
Heard mama crying that something wasn't right  
        G  
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load  
           D                                        D(d u d u d) 4x  
You could smell the whisky burning down Copperhead Road.  
  
        D  
I volunteered for the army on my birthday  
They draft the white trash first, round hear anyway  
I done two tours of duty in Viet Nam  
I came home with a brand new plan  
I'd take the seed from Columbia and Mexico  
                                                D7  
I'd plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road  
        G  
Now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air  
   D  
I wake up screamin, like I'm back over there  
    G  
I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know.  
      D                                 D(d u d u d) 4x  
You better stay away from Copperhead Road.  

  
**I like to play this in drop D tuning and if you do that, it's best  
to play the G like the second chording.