![]() Once he returns home, he decides to use the Copperhead Road land to grow marijuana, using seeds from Colombia and Mexico. Pettimore enlists in the Army on his birthday, believing he will soon be drafted, and serves two tours of duty in Vietnam. himself is killed in a fiery car crash on the same road while driving to Knoxville with a weekly shipment. on Copperhead Road, intent on apprehending him for his moonshine activities, but never returned. According to a family story, a Revenue Man once confronted 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 holler 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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