I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

And I spent all my money

On whiskey and beer



And I go to some hollow

And set up my still

If whiskey don't kill me

Lord, I don't know what will



And I go to some bar room

To drink with my friends

Where the women they can't follow

To see what I spend



God bless them pretty women

I wish there was mine

With breath as sweet as

The dew on the vine



Let me eat when I'm hungry

Let me drink when I'm dry

Two dollars when I'm hard up

Religion when I die



The whole world is a bottle

And life is but a dram

When the bottle gets empty

Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn