Verse 1: C G C Get you a copper kettle, C G C Get you a copper coil, Em Am Fill it with new-made corn mash F G And never more you'll toil. Chorus: Am Em And you lay there by the juniper Am Em while the moon is bright, Am G Watch them jugs a-filling Am Em Am In the pale moonlight.
Verse 2: C G C Build you a fire with hickory, C G C Hickory, ash and oak, Em Am Don't use no green or rotten wood; F G They'll get you by the smoke. Chorus: Am Em And you lay there by the juniper Am Em while the moon is bright, Am G Watch them jugs a-filling Am Em Am In the pale moonlight. Verse 3: C G C My daddy, he made whiskey; C G C My grand-daddy, he did too. Em Am We ain't paid no whiskey tax F G Since seventeen ninety-two. Chorus: Am Em As you lay there by the juniper Am Em while the moon is bright, Am G Watch them jugs a-filling Am Em Am In the pale moonlight.