First off I agree completely with the tab and the intro that mammy put up, it  
is perfect. (I used a lil bit of mammy's tab in here, the d,u,d,u,d 4x part is  
mammy's....there's just no better way to describe that strum pattern) This isnt  
here to down play his tab at all. 
the thing I notice thats a lil different and this is that as you play a D chord  
you throw in a lil bit open G string and then hammer down with your little  
finger on the G string in the 4th fret  
 
(This is my first tab so please Bear with me, if you have questions please  
email me at bigboybrooks@hotmail.com ) 
 
 
           D               D-open G           D- Hammer on G 4th fret 
e---------2----------------2------------------------------2---------------------- |  
B--------3----------------3------------------------------3---------------------- |  
g---------2----------------0-----------------------------4----------------------- |  
d---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  
a--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |  
 
I basically play the regular D while I am singing the song but between each  
line I do a little bit of that action, it adds a little bit of the sound of the  
intro into each verse and kinda adds a little twang to the song. 
 
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Copperhead road  
Written by: Steve Earle  
Live at wormy dog  
by: Jason Boland 
 
      D5                                                                                         D5 -open G5    D5 -hammer G5 on 4  
Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore, 
D5                                                                                         D5 -open G5    D5 -hammer G5 on 4  
Same as my daddy and his daddy's before. 
D5                                                                                         D5 -open G5     D5 -hammer G5 on 4 
You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here 
D5                                                                                         D5 -open G5    D5 -hammer G5 on 4  
He'd only come to town about twice a year 
D5                                                                                         D5 -open G5    D5 -hammer G5 on 4  
Buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line. 
 D5                                                                                        D5 -open G5   D5 -hammer on 4      
Everybody knew that he made moonshine. 
   G5 
Now the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad. 
  D5                                                                                         
Headed up the holler with everything he had. 
  G5       
Before my time, but I've been told. 
    D5 
You never come back from Copperhead Road. 
 

      D5 
Granddaddy ran whiskey in a big black Dodge 

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge 

Had Payne County Sheriff painted on the side 

Everybody knew that he made moonshie 

Well, him and my uncle tore that engine down 

I still remember that rumbling sound 
          

 G5 
Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night 
 D5  
Heard mama crying that something wasn't right 
        G5 
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load 
       D5                                                              D5 (d,u,d,u,d) 4x 
You could smell the whisky burning down Copperhead Road. 
 

       D5 
I volunteered for the army on my birthday 

They draft the white trash first, round hear anyway 

I done two tours of duty in Viet Nam 

I came home with a brand new plan 

I'd take the seed from Columbia and Mexico 

I'd plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road 
   G5 
Now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air 
    D5 
I wake up screamin, like I'm back over there 
   G5 
I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know. 
   D5                                              D5 (d,u,d,u,d) 4x 
You better stay away from Copperhead Road. 
 

D5   
Yea Copperhead road   
D5  
Copper head road  
D5  
Copper head rooooooaaaad