![]() Once he returns home, he decides to use the Copperhead Road land to grow marijuana, rather than produce moonshine ("I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico"). Pettimore enlists in the Army on his birthday, believing he will soon be drafted ("They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway"), and serves two tours of duty in Vietnam. himself is killed in a fiery car crash while driving to Knoxville with a weekly shipment. The lyric " He never come back from Copperhead road" implies either the Revenuer was ambushed and killed by John Sr. ![]() According to the narrator, a Revenue Man wanted John Sr. ![]() Pettimore's father hauled the moonshine to Knoxville each week in an old police cruiser he bought at a surplus auction. Pettimore's grandfather visited town only rarely, in order to buy supplies for a still he had set up in a hollow along Copperhead Road. The song's narrator is named John Lee Pettimore III, whose father and grandfather were both active in moonshine making and bootlegging in rural Johnson County, Tennessee. ![]()
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