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