Intro
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My brothers name is John Lee Pettimore
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Same as my daddy and his daddy before
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You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
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He only came to town about twice a year
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He'd 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 Grandaddy bad
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He headed up the holler with everything he had
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Before my time but I've been told
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He never came back from Copperhead Road
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Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big black dodge
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Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
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Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
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Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
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Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
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I still remember that rumblin' sound
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When the Sheriff came around in the middle of the night
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Heard mama cryin' knew 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 whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road
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So my brother joined the Army on his birthday
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They draft the white trash first, 'Round here anyway
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He done two tours of duty in Vietnam
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He came home with a brand new plan
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He take seed from Columbia and Mexico
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He just plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
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Now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
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He wake up screaming like he's back over there
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He learned a thing or two from charlie dont you know
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You better stay away from Copperhead Road
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My family's menfolk built this town
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Law tries to take 'em take 'em down
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But what they dont know and they'll never guess
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Is I'm a dang good smuggler in a cotton dress
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I watched my family get tore up good
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Learned from their mistakes, learned everthing I could
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Made 'em all think I'm the girl next door
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But I'll always be a Pettimore down to my core
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And I'll keep quiet the family code
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Ain't nothing going down on Copperhead Road
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Copperhead Road
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Mmmmmmmm Copperhead Road
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Yeah, Hey Copperhead Road
[Outro]
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