One correction: Buell Kazee's is not the minor key tune, Sandburg's is. Buell's tune was major, and went:

D--D / E C D C .A .G       .G .A . / C E C-.A .G

repeated over for remaining line of verse. He told me "Very tiresome tune. I was having trouble with my trained voice" [trying to keep it out of the record]. "I could feel the struggle all the way through." He did not say where he got the song or if he added any verses.

WHISKER BILL, THE OLD MOONSHINER
Buell Kazee, Brunswick E 22500, April 19, 1927.

I've been a moonshiner for seven long years,
I've spent all my money on whiskey and beers,

I'll go up some dark holler, I'll set up my still,
I'll still you one gallon for a two dollar bill,

Purty women, purty women, don't trouble my mind,
If the whiskey don't kill me I'll live a long time.

I'd rather be single with no trouble on my mind
Than to marry and worry with trouble all the time.

I'll stroll up the holler to get you some booze,
If the Revenues don't get me, no money I'll lose.

It was Carl Sandburg's tune that was the interesting minor key. Based in A minor, it goes

E / D A   D B .G    .G B D   B A   repeated over for second line.

He groups his verses in four lines instead of two.

KENTUCKY MOONSHINER
Sandburg, American Songbag, 1927, 142-3

I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years,
I've spent all my money for whiskey and beers.
I'll go to some holler, I'll put up my still,
I'll make you one gallon for a two dollar bill.

I'll go to some grocery and drink with my friends,
No women to follow and see what I spends,
God bless those pretty women, I wish they were mine,
Their breath smells as sweet as the dew on the vine.

I'll eat when I'm hungry, and drink when I'm dry,
If moonshine don't kill me, I'll live till I die.
God bless those moonshiners, I wish they were mine,
Their breath smells as sweet as the good old moonshine.

Those are the two earliest versions I know. Bob