Moonshiner

I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

I spent all my money on whiskey and beer



I go to some hollow

And set up my still

If whiskey don't kill me

Then I don't know what will



I go to some bar room

And drink with my friends

If women came to follow

And see what I spend

God bless them pretty women

I wish they was mine



They're breath is as sweet as

The dew on vine



Let me eat when I'm hungry

Let me drink when I'm dry

A dollar when I am hard up

Religion when I die

The whole world is a bottle

And life is but a dram



When the bottle gets empty

It sure ain't worth a dime