Copper Kettle

Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
And never more you'll toil

You just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight

My daddy, he made whiskey
My granddaddy did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Since seventeen ninety-two

We just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight

Build your fire with hickory
Hickory and ash and oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood
They'll get you by the smoke

While you lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight

Get you a copper kettle
Get you a copper coil
Cover with new-made corn mash
And never more you'll toil

You just lay there, by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
In the pale moonlight
In the pale moonlight