D b
Fetch me a copper kettle and fetch me a copper coil
G e7 A7
And cover with new made corn mash and never more we will toil
b D b D
And we just lay there beneath the juniper while the moon shines bright
b A-G e A b-A G A b - A
Watch those jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight – in the pale moonlight.
Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak
And don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by the smoke
And we just lay there beneath the juniper while the moon shines bright
Watch those jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight – in the pale moonlight.
My granddaddy he made whiskey, my daddy he did too
And we have payed no whiskey tax since 1792
And we just lay there beneath the juniper while the moon shines bright
Watch those jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight – in the pale moonlight.