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