Get you a copper kettle,
get you a copper coil,
Fill it with new-made corn mash
and never more you'll toil.
Chorus:
You'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a filling
In the pale moonlight.
Build you a fire with hickory,
hickory, ash and oak,
Don't use no green or rotten wood;
they'll get you by the smoke.
Chorus:
You'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight.
My daddy, he made whiskey;
my granddaddy, he did too.
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
since 1792.
Chorus:
You'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a filling
In the pale moonlight.
In the pale moonlight.