Kentucky Moonshiner
by Dave Van Ronk
From the album: Inside Dave Van Ronk
Track 11 of 12 on Inside Dave Van Ronk (1964).
Duration: 2:36
Lyrics for Kentucky Moonshiner
I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long year I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer in some lonesome hollow I'll build me my still and I'll make you a gallon for a two dollar bill I'll go to some grocery and drink with my friend no woman to follow me and see how I spend God bless those pretty women, I wish they were mine their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine it's cornbread when I'm hungry, corn liquor when I'm dry green backs when I'm hard up, religion when I die the world is but a bottle, life is but a dram when the bottle is empty it ain't worth a damn I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long year I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer in some lonesome hollow I'll build me my still and I'll make you a gallon for a two dollar bill