Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil Fill it with new made corn mash and never more you'll toil You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright Watch them just 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 You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright Watch them just 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 You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright Watch them just a-filling in the pale moonlight.