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 moon shine
now the revenue man wanted grandaddy bad, he headed up
the holler with everything he had,
before my time but I've been told, he never
come back from copperhead road
now daddy ran the whiskey in a big black dodge,
bought it in an auction at the masons lodge
Johnson county sheriff painted on the side
just shot coat of primer and they looked inside
well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumbling sound
now the sheriff came round in the middle of the night,
heard momma crying knew somethin' wasn't right
he was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
you could smell the whiskey burning down copper head road
I volunteered for the army on my birthday
they draft the white trash first draft here any way,
I've done two tours of duty in Vietnam
I came home with a brand new plan,
I take the seed from colombia and Mexico
just plant it in the holler down copperhead road.
now the DEA's got a chopper in the air, I wake up
screaming like I'm back over there,
I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't ya know,
you better stay aways from Copperhead road
Copperhead road
Copperhead road
Copperhead road
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 moon shine
now the revenue man wanted grandaddy bad, he headed up
the holler with everything he had,
before my time but I've been told, he never
come back from copperhead road
now daddy ran the whiskey in a big black dodge,
bought it in an auction at the masons lodge
Johnson county sheriff painted on the side
just shot coat of primer and they looked inside
well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumbling sound
now the sheriff came round in the middle of the night,
heard momma crying knew somethin' wasn't right
he was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
you could smell the whiskey burning down copper head road
I volunteered for the army on my birthday
they draft the white trash first draft here any way,
I've done two tours of duty in Vietnam
I came home with a brand new plan,
I take the seed from colombia and Mexico
just plant it in the holler down copperhead road.
now the DEA's got a chopper in the air, I wake up
screaming like I'm back over there,
I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't ya know,
you better stay aways from Copperhead road
Copperhead road
Copperhead road
Copperhead road