Steve Earle – Copperhead Road (Guitar)

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[Intro] D

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* PLAY RIFF 1 AFTER EACH VERSE LINE

[Verse]

D
Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

D
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here

He only came to town about twice a year

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

Everybody knew that he made moonshine

           G                  C       G
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad

D
He headed up the holler with everything he had

       G                  C         G
It's before my time but I've been told

D
He never came back from Copperhead Road

[INTRO RIFF] [Verse]

D
Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

D
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side

Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

D
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

            G                         C             G
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night

D
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right

         G                                 C      G
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

D (LET RING)
You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

[Break] D N.C. x4 [Instrumental] x2 G C G D [Verse]

D
I volunteered for the Army on my birthday

They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway

D
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam

And I came home with a brand new plan

D
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico

I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road

           G              C             G
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air

D
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there

     G                               C               G
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know

D
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

[Break] D N.C. 4x

[Outro]
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B|---3---3-------3--0-0--5-5-5-0-0-0-0-0-3------|
G|-2-2-2-2-4p2p0-2--0-0--5-5-5-4-4\2-2p0-2------|
D|-0---0-----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
* PLAY RIFF 1 AFTER EACH VERSE LINE

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