Moonshiner
Status
Cover Song
Written By
Unknown
Recording Sessions
N/A
Availability of Official Release
N/A
Lyrics
I’ve been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I spend all of my money on whiskey and beer
And I’ll go to some hollow and set up my still
If whiskey don’t kill me then I don’t know what will
I’ll go to some bar room and drink with my friends
Where the women can’t follow and see what I spend
Well God bless the pretty women, I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine
Let me eat when I’m hungry, give me a drink when I’m dry
And a dollar when I’m hard up, religion when I die
The whole world’s a bottle and life’s but a dram
When the bottle gets empty it sure ain’t worth a damn.
First Known Live Performance
2000-12-07 (Club Quattro, Osaka, Japan)
Audio
(taken from the live performance noted above)