How about a little Copperhead Road for all the Tennessee natives?

They play this song a lot on WIMZ 103.5 out of Knoxville.



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Copperhead Road
(Steve Earle)

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came 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
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road

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Wake me when it's over...

That was one cool song!

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Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire

Hard to believe this song is 25 years old.

I crank it up when it's on.

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Wake me when it's over...

That song has a lot of truth to it.

More than you might know.....I am from Johnson County!

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I hope I copied that right

Wish he would have done more. The drugs and prison set him back. I listen to him DJ, he sounds a little burnt at times. He till makes music. The stuff I have heard doesn't interest me, but I have only heard a couple.

His Essential album, great hits, has rode many miles on my bike.

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Beware the man with one gun.

Sure sounds like it could have been written about neighbors right up the road. Sadly, the next generation makes meth and that isn't quite as endearing.

Ed

I had that on cassette, and now listen to it on IPOD, great song. ALways loved his album Corazon also, he's had his demons, but I'm glad he's still making music. I've seen him do some acting also, but off hand I can't remember what he was in...