He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

Ever mention that I love Steve Earle?

I've heard Copperhead Road is a real place, time to find it. 

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 moonshine

Head into the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, deep in the Cherokee National Forest.

and drive...

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

You never come back from Copperhead Road

and drive...

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big black 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

and drive...

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

and drive....

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

and drive...

I take the seed from Columbia 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

I'm proud, this took all day and my back is killing me and I got lost twice. Standing at the start of Copperhead Hollow Road.