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| 1. |
| 4:33 | 
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Ya hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here He only come to town about twice a year He'd buy a hundred pounds o'yeast and some copperline Everybody knew that he made moonshine That revenue man wanted grandaddy bad He headed up the holler with evrything he had it was before my time but i've been told He never came back from copperhead road Now my daddy ran the whiskey in a big black dodge he bought it at an auction at the mason's lodge Johnson's county sherrif painted on the side just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside well him and my uncle tore that engine down i still remember that rumblin' sound Then the sherrif came around in the middle of the night heard mama cryin' knew somethin wasnt right he was headed down to knoxville with the weekly load u could smell the whiskey burnin down copperhead road I volonteered for the army on my birthday they draft the white trash first 'round here anyway i done two tours of duty in vietnam i came home with a brand new plan i take the seed from colombia to mexico i plant it up the holler down copperhead road well the DEA's got a chopper in the air i wake up screamin like im back over there i learned a thing or two from ol' charlie don't you know you'd better stay away from copperhead road copperhead road copperhead road copperhead road |
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| 2. |
| 3:26 |
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Ladies and gentlemen, attention please Come in close so everyone can see I got a tale to tell A listen don't cost a dime And if you believe that we're gonna get along just fine Now I've been travelin' all around I heard trouble's come to your town Well I've got a little somethin' Guaranteed to ease your mind It's call Snake Oil y'all It's been around for a long, long time Say, your crops'll burn if it don't rain soon Ain't seen a drop since the tenth of June Well I can open up the sky People never fear If you ain't impressed yet, just tell me what you wanna hear Well you lost your farm so you moved to town You get a job, they shut the factory down Now you sit around all day long feelin' sad and blue You need Snake Oil y'all, tell you what I'm gonna do I can heal the sick, I can mend the lame And the blind shall see again, it's all the same Well ain't your President good to you Knocked 'em dead in Libya, Grenada too Now he's taking his show a little further down the line Well, 'tween me and him people, you're gonna get along just fine |
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| 3. |
| 5:31 |
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Well sometimes in the evenings I start to get that feeling Like I'm empty inside I know I'm doin' good now but tonight I'm headed downtown Down by the riverside I sit underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old days And a bottle of wine Well he used to call me ";Big Time";, and he knew someday that I'd shine Said he'd seen all the signs He said . . ";Keep yourself to yourself Keep your bedroll dry And boy you never can tell What the shadows hide Keep ene eve on the ground Pick up whatever you find 'Cause you've got no place to fall When your back's to the wall"; He's gettin' old and it's showin' when I asked him how it's goin' He said ";I've seen better I guess I've been rained on, I've been frozen, but this here's the life I've chosen If it just wasn't for the loneliness"; Now this river suits me to a T. but if you're trying to raise a family It ain't no place to be There's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in grade school somewhere Now he hangs out with me And I told him . . ."; Well we finished off the bottle and I told him,";Joe I think I ought to Be headed uptown"; Well it was late, and I'd been drinkin', drivin' home I got to thinkin' 'Bout what's been going down Cause they're nervous down on Wall Street, but they're trying to keep it upbeat Or maybe they just don't care But down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables turnin' So if you wind up down there . . . |
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| 4. |
| 3:02 |
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About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war I saw my first pistol in the general store In the general store, when I was thirteen Thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen So l asked if I could have one someday when I grew up Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up She really blew up and I didn't understand Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt Shoot as fast as lightnin' but it loads a mite slow Loads a mite slow and soon I found out It can get you into trouble but it can't get you out So then I went and bought myself a Colt 45 Called a peacemaker but I never knew why Never knew why, I didn't understand Cause Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand Well I get into a card game in a company town Caught a miner cheating I shot the dog down Shot the dog down, watched the man fall Never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed Asked me how I pleaded, not guilty I said Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand |
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| 5. |
| 4:09 |
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I'm an American, boys, and I've come a long way I was born and bred in the USA So listen up close, I've get something to say Boys, I'm buying this round Well it took a Iittke while but we're in this fight And we ain't going home 'til we've done what's right We're gonna drink Camden Town dry tonight If I have to spend my last pound When I first got to London it was pourin' down rain Met a Iittle girl in the field canteen Painted her name on the nose of my plane Six more missions I'm gene Well I asked if I could stay and she said that I might Then the warden came around yelling "turn out the lights" Death rainin' out of the London night We made love 'til dawn But when Johnny Come Lately comes marching home With a chest full of medals and a G.l. loan They'll be waitin' at the station down in San Antone When Johnny comes marching home MY P-47 is a pretty good ship And she took a round coming cross the Channel last trip I was thinking 'bout my baby and letting her rip Always got me through so far Well they can ship me all over this great big world But I'll never find nothing like my North End girl I'm taking her home whh me one day, sir Soon as we win this war Now my granddaddy sang me this song Told me about Londen when the Blitz was on How he married Grandma and brought her back home A hero throughout his land Now I'm standing on a runway in San Diego A couple Purple Hearts and I move a little slow There's nobody here, maybe nobody knows About a place called Vietnam |
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| 4:13 |
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I've always heard that love is blind But I know that there's another kind Shines like a beacon in the night And holds up in the morning light Cause in mv dreams she travels with me when I run And in my dreams she takes my hand When I make my stand but morning always comes And I know it's too good to be true She loves me even when I'm blue No one can say that I ain't tried I keep on searching far and wide And I know she's out there somewhere now I'm gonna track her down somehow |
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| 7. |
| 4:25 |
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Lately I've been feeling a little uneasy so I run straight home to you It's been cold as hell and you just can't tell what a girl might do I made a whole lot of promises baby, but none of my dreams came true And it's you that paid and I'm so afraid that I'm losing you But you belong to me You belong to me you beleng to me, me, baby, me Now your mama said you could do better than me, baby I know that's true But you believed me instead. every word I said, and I did too But every day's a Iittle bit harder out there no matter what I do Well I could carry the world on my shoulders girl long as I got you But you belong to me You belong to me you beleng to me, me, baby, me But you belong to me You belong to me you beleng to me, me, baby, me Well my shining armour is rusted and worn There's a heart inside here entrusted and sworn to you Just tell me baby what I need to do I can win you over again if you want me to But you belong to me You beleng to me, me, baby, me |
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| 8. |
| 5:12 |
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Here comes the night, day brings no light For wrong or right I'm here waiting on you Words cut too deep, old ghosts won't sleep But they'll never keep me from waiting on you Breathing out, breathing in Holding out, giving in Doing with or without For a lifetime, just a lifetime I can't let go, I wait for you Till hell goes cold, I'll wait for you You're all I know and I wait for you Breathing out, breathing in Holding out, giving in Doing with or without waiting on you Don't show it all, walk on, walk tall Behind this wall I'm still waiting on you |
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| 4:40 |
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A long time ago there lived a man He had the world in the palm of his hand Sultans and kings beat a path to his door He had everything but he still wanted more One day in spring came a lady so fair He'd never looked on a beauty so rare But he didn't trust her so he locked her away And his gold lost its luster when love died that day Once you love, once you trust it Once you give your soul is bare One false move and you know you're busted Once you love you care I knew an old man who lived all alone In a sad Iittle house at the end of the road He sat on the front porch in an old rocking chair And everyone swore he'd gone crazy down there But no one comes near so how could they know He lost someone dear to him once long ago He remembers the laughter and he still tastes the tears And he still calls her name out after all of these years You can keep it all inside You can run but you can't hide When you think it's safe outside Look behind you, love will find you |
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| 4:24 |
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Once upon a time in a far off land Wise men saw a sign and set out aross the sand Songs of praise to sing, they travelled day and night Precious gifts to bring, guided by the light They chased a brand new star, ever towards the west Across the mountains far, but when it came to rest They scarce believed their eyes, they'd come so many miles And the miracle they prized was nothing but a child Nothing but a child could wash these tears away Or guide a weary world into the light of day And nothing but a child could help erase these miles So once again we all can be children for awhile Now all around the world, in every Iittle town Everyday is heard a precious little sound And every mother kind and every father proud Looks down in awe to find another chance allowed |
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