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