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