Standard (EADGBE)

I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

I spend all my money on whiskey 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

See if women and men would come to follow

To see what I might spend

God bless them handsome men

I wish they was mine

Their 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