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I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
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I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer
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I go to some hollow and set up my still
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And if whiskey don't kill me
G#
Then I don't know what will
[Verse 2]
(same chords)
A#m F# C# G#
I go to some barroom and drink with my friends
A#m F# C# G#
Where the women can't follow and see what I spent
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God bless them pretty women, how I wish they was mine
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Their breath is as sweet as
G#
The dew on the vine
[Verse 3]
(same chords)
A#m F# C# G#
Let me eat when I'm hungry, let me drink when I'm dry
A#m F# C# G#
Give me dollar when I'm hard up, religion when I die
F# G# C# F#
The whole world's a bottle, and life's just a dram
A#m F# C#
When a bottle gets empty
G#
It sure ain't worth a damn