ATF: Celtic Overtones

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Steve Earle]

Copperhead Road

Steve Earle

Well

My name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy

And his daddy before

You hardly ever saw

Grandaddy down here

He only came to town

About twice a year

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast

And some copper line

Everybody knew that

He made moonshine

Now the revenue man

Wanted grandaddy bad

He headed up the holler

With everything he had

It's before my time

But I've been told

He never came back

From Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey

In a big block Dodge

Bought it at an auction

At the Mason's Lodge

Johnson County sheriff

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

Well the sheriff came around

In the middle of the night

Heard mama cryin'

Knew something wasn't right

He was headed down to Knoxville

With the weekly load

You could smell the whiskey burnin'

Down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the army

On my birthday

They draft the

White trash first

Around here

Anyway

I done two tours of duty

In Vietnam

And I came home

With a brand new plan

I take the seed from Colombia

And Mexico

I just plant it up the holler

Down Copperhead Road

Well the D.E.A.'s

Got a chopper in the air

I wake up screamin’

Like I'm back over there

I learned a thing or two

From ol' Charlie

Don't you know

You better stay away

From Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Link: [The Cranberries]

Dreams

The Cranberries

Oh my life

Is changin’ everyday

In every possible way

And oh my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

Never quite as it seems

I know I felt like this before

But now I'm feelin’ it even more

Because it came from you

Then I open up and see

The person fallin’ here is me

A different way to be

I want more

Impossible to ignore

Impossible to ignore

And they'll come true

Impossible not to do

Impossible not to do

And now I tell you openly

You have my heart

So don't hurt me

You're what I couldn't find

A totally amazin’ mind

So understandin’

And so kind

You're everything to me

Oh my life

Is changin’ everyday

In every possible way

And oh my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

'Cause you're a dream to me

Dream to me

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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