Copper Kettle

by Bob Dylan

From the album: Self Portrait

Track 13 of 24 on Self Portrait (1970).

Duration: 3:33

Self Portrait cover art

Lyrics for Copper Kettle

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 jugs a-filling In the pale moonlight. Build you a fire with hickory, Hickory, ash, and oak. Don't use no green or rotten wood, It'll get you by the smoke. We'll just lay there by the juniper, While the moon is bright. Watch them jugs 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. We'll just lay there by the juniper, While the moon is bright. Watch them jugs a-filling In the pale moonlight.

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