Travis Tritt - Copperhead Road (live)
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The main character of the song is the man returning from Vietnam to grow weed. That is at least as important as the moonshine. Steve Earle, who wrote the song, says it is about coming to terms with the war and the way the US failed it's soldiers. He says it is a political song. You are entitled to your opinion, but it is only an opinion.
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Needs more mandolin.
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The song is about a family tradition of bootlegging shine, he only mentions weed at the end
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Travis does the best version of this song... ever....
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WRONG, Copperhead Road is about the boot-legging of whiskey.
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I have to say, Travis is pretty good at this.
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You know you're a rock star when all you have to do is raise your fist to make people scream.
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The song is about marijuana (I don't think coca plants would even grow in Appalachia)... but Steve Earle did plenty of coke, by his own admission, including crack cocaine and various forms of dope. Bottomed out in the early 90s and dropped out of music, got clean in late 94 and has been clean since,
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@tcjb666 ya cuz steve earle didn't do coke...and neither did i? go fuck yourself you incorrect sonofabitch
is there a "i kinda liked it, but its never going to be as good as Steve Earle" button
NP535overdrive 3 months ago 9
@Amhermanii
It's both. Listen to the last verse. It is about a guy from a bootlegging family who comes back from Vietnam and plants weed. "I came home with a brand new plan... I take seeds from Columbia and Mexico, plant 'em up a 'holler down Copperhead Road... now the DEA's got a chopper in the air" (not ATF or revenuers, so it is drugs.) I know the first part is about bootlegging, I was responding to someone who said the last verse was about cocaine.
nilradem 2 months ago 2