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