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