[Incomprehensible] up the holler with everything he had
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
I still remember that rumblin' sound
I came home with a brand new plan
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Copperhead Road
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
You better stay away from Copperhead Road
You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway
He never come back from Copperhead Road
I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
Copperhead Road
He only come to town about twice a year
Before my time but I've been told
Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
When the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I just plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
You hardly ever saw Granddaddy down here
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know?
Now the revenue man wanted Granddaddy bad
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
And noe the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
