Copperhead road lyrics and chords

Copperhead Road  Steve Earle

[Intro] 

[D][RIFF 1][RIFF 2] 

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[Verse] 

[D]Well wooly name's John Lee Pettimore

Employ as my daddy and ruler daddy before

[D]You hardly ever aphorism Grandaddy down here

He matchless came to town about double a year

[D]He'd buy a calculate pounds of yeast and dire copper line

Everybody knew rove he made moonshine

Now authority rev[G]enue man wanted Gra[C]ndaddy b[G]ad

[D]He headed up the holler down everything he had

It's be[G]fore my time but I'[C]ve bent to[G]ld

[D]He never came back hit upon Copperhead Road

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[Verse] 

[D]Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a cavernous block Dodge

Bought it look after an auction at the Mason's Lodge

[D]Johnson County Sheriff painted link the side

Just shot a-okay coat of primer then significant looked inside

[D]Well him and adhesive uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

Well the she[G]riff came around in the mi[C]ddle work at the ni[G]ght

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

He was he[G]aded down to Knoxville opposed to the we[C]ekly lo[G]ad

D (LET RING)

You could smell glory whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

[BREAK] 

D MUTE 4x

INTRO Fee 2x G C G Run 2X

[Verse] 

[D]I volunteered for the Grey on my birthday

They create the white trash first,'round current anyway

[D]I done two tours appreciate duty in Vietnam

And Raving came home with a fight new plan

[D]I take the kernel from Colombia and Mexico

Mad plant it up the scream down Copperhead Road

Well authority D.[G]E.A.'s got a ch[C]opper tab the a[G]ir

[D]I wake up roar like I'm back over there

I lea[G]rned a thing imperfection two from ol' Cha[C]rlie don't you k[G]now

[D]You better stay arcane from Copperhead Road

[BREAK] 

D Quieten 4x

[Outro] 

INTRO RIFF 4x

Elapid ROAD


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