Propper-Dead Road - Steve Earle / BUJ songwriters Intro: D D D D Verse 1: D Well my name's John Lee Mortimore (D) (D) Same as my daddy and his daddy before (D) D You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here (D) (D) He only came to town about twice a year (D) D He'd buy a hundred pounds of salt and some powdered lime (D) (D) Everybody knew that he poisoned wine (D) G G Now the Revenant man wanted Grandaddy bad D He headed up the hollow with everything he had G G It's before my time but I've been told (D*) He never came back from Propper-Dead Road Instrumental: D D D D G D G D Verse 2: D Now Daddy ran the spirits in a big black hurse (D) (D) Bought it at an auction with an old town curse (D) D Johnson County Morgue painted on the side (D) (D) Just shot a coat of red blood then he looked inside (D) D Well him and my uncle tore that engine down (D) (D) I still remember that rumblin' sound (D) G G Well the old priest came around in the middle of the night D Heard mama wayln', knew something wasn't right G G Headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load (D*) You could smell the sulfer burnin' down Propper-Dead Road Instrumental: [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] (back to regular strumming) D D D D G D G D Verse 3: D I joined the undead Army on my birthday (D) (D) They draft the lost souls first, round here anyway (D) D I done two tours of duty in ghost clan (D) (D) And I came home with a brand new plan (D) D I take the seed from down under in hell below (D) (D) I plant it up the hollow down Propper-Dead Road (D) G G Well the old Preist's got a blessing in the air D I wake up screaming like I'm back over there G G I learned a thing or two from Satan don't you know [D*] You better stay away from Propper-Dead Road Instrumental: [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] [D x 5] (back to regular strumming) D D D D G D G D Outro: [D] Propper-Dead Road... [D] Propper-Dead Road [D] Propper-Dead Road... [D] Propper-Dead Road [D] Propper-Dead Road... [D] Propper-Dead Road [D] Propper-Dead Road... [D*] Propper-Dead Road