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