Verse
D A D
Get you a copper kettle,
D A D
Get you a copper coil,
F# Bm
Fill it with new-made corn mash
Em A
And never more you'll toil.
CHORUS:
Bm F#m
As you lay there by the juniper
Bm D F#
while the moon is bright,
Bm A
Watch them jugs a-filling
Bm F#m Bm
In the pale moonlight.
VERSE 2:
D A D
Build you a fire with hickory,
D A D
Hickory, ash and oak,
F# Bm
Don't use no green or rotten wood;
Em A
They'll get you by the smoke.
CHORUS:
Bm F#m
As you lay there by the juniper
Bm D F#
while the moon is bright,
Bm A
Watch them jugs a-filling
Bm F#m Bm
In the pale moonlight.
VERSE 3:
D A D
My daddy, he made whiskey;
D A D
My grand-daddy, he did too.
F# Bm
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Em A
Since seventeen ninety-two.
CHORUS:
Bm F#m
As you lay there by the juniper
Bm D F#
while the moon is bright,
Bm A
Watch them jugs a-filling
Bm F#m Bm
In the pale moonlight.