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