Get you a copper kettle

And get you a copper coil

Cover with new cut corn mash

And never more you'll toil



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You just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is high

And watch them jugs a-fillin

In the pale moonlight





Build your fires of hickory

Hickory or ash or oak

Don't use no green or rotten wood

They'll catch you by the smoke



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My daddy he made whiskey

My granddaddy did too

We ain't paid no whiskey tax

Since Seventeen Ninety Two



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