Get you a copper kettle,
Get you a copper coil,
Fill it with new-made corn mash
And never more you'll toil.
As you 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.
As you 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 grand-daddy, he did too.
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Since seventeen ninety-two.
As you lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight.