Steve Earle – Copperhead Road (4:30)

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The title song “Copperhead Road” tells of a Vietnam War veteran, scion of a rural moonshine bootlegging clan, who returns home to Johnson County, Tennessee (Copperhead road is an actual road near Mountain City, TN). The song also inspired a popular line dance timed to the beat of the song.

Lyrics:

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
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It’s before my time but I’ve been told
He never came back from 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
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
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin’, knew something wasn’t right
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin’ down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico

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sstrosser1 wrote:
last month

Never understood why people would take the time to type that they don't care for a song when hitting the foward button to switch to the next song takes a fraction of the time and its less time listing to the song they don't like !!!! Just the way i look at things... Sweet track acoustic or not....

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somercet wrote:
last month

@oldiesfanjohn, this rocks. How's your tasty crack? o_O

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Drazba wrote:
December 2011

straight acoustic guitar start on a live track this time-nice

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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
December 2011

accoustic set?more fiddle/mandolin/guitar needed,...first 3 min or so is a buzzkill,then it don`t reach out and grab ya`...it`s boring!...the ending doesn`t make up for it,it sucks!

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WestEndIrish wrote:
December 2011

Go head John Lee Pettimore!

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greendreamz wrote:
November 2011

god bless the growers....

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Drazba wrote:
October 2011

i agree-nice fiddle- mandolin intro-had to think of the coincidence that the state just gave a company over in cannon county a permit to distill white lightning today.

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tunghaichuan wrote:
September 2011

It sounds like this version of Copperhead Road is from the Transcendental Blues Live DVD. It is not the studio version on the Copperhead Road album.

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mrciscoma wrote:
September 2011

I don´t like this music

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nick_honest wrote:
August 2011

great song!

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imbackvikingwil wrote:
August 2011

quality listening

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boots8200 wrote:
July 2011

The album version is so much better than this accoustic set.

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kentko44 wrote:
July 2011

song about my neck of the woods.

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mirrorball95 wrote:
July 2011

Great song. Version from 'Live At The BBC' album is the best!

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davidbowiegirl wrote:
July 2011

Great song

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melliegaredhat wrote:
July 2011

Love this song , Copperhead Road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get down!!!!!!!!!!

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greendreamz wrote:
May 2011

love it love it love it.should be the national anthem.anybody remember the term land of the free?

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manonadune wrote:
May 2011

One of THE BEST rock songs ever. Every time I hear it is as exciting as the first time. I could never tire of this song.

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balanfork wrote:
May 2011

makes me wanna have a shot and a beer, the run my ass home.

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travb1965 wrote:
May 2011

Love this song.

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