You can hear this recording on YouTube. I have boldfaced the words that are different from Grandpa Jones’ recording, above. Note that this recording is older than Grandpa Jones’.


OLD MOUNTAIN DEW
(Alton Delmore)
As recorded by The Delmore Brothers, 1940. (Decca 5890-A)

1. There's an old holler tree down the road here from me
Where you lay down a dollar or two.
Then you drive round the bend; when you come back again,
With a jug full of mountain dew.

CHORUS. Oh, they call it that ol’ mountain dew,
And them that refuse it are few.
Oh, I'll shut up my mug if you fill up my jug
With that good ol’ mountain dew.

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2. Now, if you are the sort that really could snort,
Here’s a piece of advice that is true:
Get it straight from the hills where a moonshiner’s still
Makes a drink of that mountain dew.

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3. Oh, the preacher drove by in his high-breasted fly,
Said his wife had been down with the flu,
And he thought that I ought just sell him a quart
Of that good ol’ mountain dew.

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4. Mister Roosevelt told us just how he felt
When he saw that the dry law was through:
“If your liquor’s too red, it will swell up your head.
Better stick to your mountain dew.”

CHORUS