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