I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

I spent all my money on whisky and beer



I go to some hollow

And set up my holy holy still

If drinking do not kill me

Then I don't know what will



I go to some bar room

And drink with my friends

If women and men would come to follow

To see what I might spend

God bless them handsome men

I wish they was mine



They're breath is as sweet as

The dew on the holy holy vine



You're already in hell, you're already in hell

I wish we could go to hell



When the bottle gets empty

Then life ain't worth the drown