Hello again. My membership must have lapsed, just joined again w/ private page. (I hope someone can correct the typing of my name here... corrected it many times But the system seems to like it this way) Bruce will probably have a fit. My favorite moonshine song is "Copper Kettle". Heard it many years ago, don't recall from whom. The lyrics:


COPPER KETTLE
Words and music by Albert Frank Beddoe
As recorded by Joan Baez on "In Concert" (1962)

1. Get you a copper kettle; get you a copper coil,
Cover with new-made corn mash, and never more you'll toil.

CHORUS: You just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

2. My daddy he made whiskey; my granddaddy did too
We ain't paid us no whiskey tax since seventeen ninety-two.

CHORUS: We just lay there….

3. Build your fire with hick'ry; hick'ry, ash, and oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood; they'll get you by the smoke.

CHORUS: Well, you lay there….

REPEAT FIRST VERSE AND CHORUS.


* Can't recall the few missing words in the Chorus, will have to find my old recording of it, and send it in. It's on a early taped concert.

Nice to see all this pickin' and singin' and searchin' going on.

xx xx

[Missing lyrics and origin credit supplied by a Mudelf.]