COPPER KETTLE

words and music by Frank Beddoe



Get you a copper kettle

Get you a copper coil

Fill it with new made cornmash

And never more you'll toil



You'll just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is bright

Watch the jugs a filling

In the pale moon light



Build your fire with hickory

Hickory, ash, and oak

Don't use no green or rotten wood

They'll catch you by the smoke



My daddy, he made whiskey

And my granddaddy did too

We ain't paid no whiskey tax

Since seventeen ninety two



Written in 1953 for a folk opera, "Go Lightly, Stranger"

Copyright TRO

Recorded by Baez

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