Chords for Copperhead Road by Steve Earle (Buchanan Boys Cover)

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_ _ _ _ _ Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore, _ _ _ same as my daddy and his daddies before.
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You hardly ever saw granddaddy down here, _ [G] _
he only come to town about twice a year. _ _ _
[D] Buy a hundred pound of yeast and some copper line, [G] _ _
_ everybody knew that we made shine.
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Now [G] the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad, [D] headed up the holler with everything he had.
[G] Before my time, well I've been told, he'd never come back from Copperhead Road. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Granddaddy ran old skid and a big black Dodge, _ _ [D] bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge.
_ _ _ Jackson County Sheriff painted on the side, _ _ shot cold of primary, we looked inside.
_ _ _ Him and my mother poured that engine down, _ _ I still remember that rumbling sound.
_ _ [G] Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night, heard mama crying, well something wasn't right.
He said, down the nozzle with a weekly [D] load, you could smell the whiskey burning down Copperhead Road.
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_ _ _ _ _ I volunteered for the Army on my birthday, _ _ _ grabbed the white trash first round here anyway.
_ _ [A] Done two tours of duty to Vietnam, _ _ _ I came home with a brand new plan.
I _ take the seat from Colombia on Mexico, _ _ [G] _
planted up a holler down Copperhead Road. _ _
[D] Now the DA's got a chopper in the air, I wake up screaming like I'm back over there.
I learned a thing or two from Charlotte, don't you know, you better stay away from Copperhead Road. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Copperhead Road, _ _ _ _ _ _ Copperhead Road. _
_ _ _ _ Copperhead Road.
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