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