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Subject: Moonshine songs From: Jayto Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:38 PM Here is another request lol. Moonshine songs.Does anyone have any good moonshine songs. Please dont put Rocky Top or Good Old Mountain Dew. I know those way way way too well. I want some cool ones I haven't heard. I know someone will put Rye whiskey and that is alright but dig deep and see what you can come up with. Thanks JT |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: kansas Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:49 PM Copper Kettle, listed in DT. This song was evidently written for an obscure musical in the 1950s, as indicated by the listing. The tune is very pretty and is what makes the song. I think there are some recordings but cannot specify any. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,dulcimerjohn Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:54 PM well..being a friend of Larry Keel..hmm. Of course there's 'Moonshiner', there's David Vai's 'Corn Liqour', um..lemme hit my mason and I'll get back w ya..j |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,dulcimerjohn Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:56 PM that's it..the Keels do Copper Kettle too..as do I. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Jayto Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:58 PM Yeah Copper Kettle I forgot about that one. I play it as an instrumental sometimes. I almost forgot it had words. I am going to have to check it out. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Oct 08 - 03:10 PM Sometimes we forget to give credit to what must be the World's Largest Folk Songbook, our very own Digital Tradition. I cringe a bit when people direct readers to folk lyrics at Olga and 8notes and Yet Another Digital Tradition and other sources, which are often merely out-of-date mirrors of what we have here. A DT Keyword Search for "Moonshine" comes up with only five songs:
Sometimes, our search engines do a better job on the DT than the keywords search, although you fill find some 'false positives' in the search results. A search for "poteen" brings up a nice list:
Say, I wonder what the numbers mean in the search results.... -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Jack Campin Date: 28 Oct 08 - 03:21 PM The Scottish strathspey "Ewie wi the Crookit Horn" (the "crookit horn" is the coil of a still). Burns's "The Deil's Awa wi th' Exciseman". Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road", sort of. "Wake Up, Darlin Corey". |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: bankley Date: 28 Oct 08 - 04:08 PM 'Moonshiner' by Tim Hardin from the 'Bird on a Wire' album 'Copperline' James Taylor |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Sorcha Date: 28 Oct 08 - 04:38 PM Thunder Road? |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Beer Date: 28 Oct 08 - 04:55 PM I think Dick Nolan does one called Cape Breton Silver. Some down homer may like to confirm this. Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Wolfgang Date: 28 Oct 08 - 05:01 PM I wonder what the numbers mean in the search results.... (Joe Offer) The higher the number the (relatively) more often the phrase appears in the text, but how the program comes to the exact number I don't know. Wolfgang |
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Subject: Lyr Add: DOOLEY (The Dillards)^^^ From: GUEST,Jim Date: 28 Oct 08 - 06:57 PM How about DOOLEY? I learned this from a Dillards record: DOOLEY^^^ (Mitch Jayne, Rodney Dillard) Dooley was a good ole man He lived below the mill Dooley had two daughters And a forty-gallon still One gal watched the boiler The other watched the spout And mama corked the bottles And ole Dooley fetched 'em out. Dooley slippin' up the holler Dooley try to make a dollar Dooley give me a swaller And I'll pay you back someday. The revenuers came for him A-sippin' though the woods Dooley kept behind them all And never lost his goods Dooley was a trader When into town he'd come Sugar by the bushel And molasses by the ton. Dooley slippin' up the holler Dooley try to make a dollar Dooley gimme a swaller And I'l pay you back someday. I remember very well The day ole Dooley died The women folk weren't sorry And the men stood round and cried Now Dooleys on the mountain He lies there all alone They put a jug beside him And a barrel for his stone. Dooley slippin' up the holler Dooley try to make a dollar Dooley gimme a swaller And I'll pay you back someday^^^ |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Jayto Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:12 PM Does anyone know the origins of the Beaver Dam Road song? There is a Beaver Dam Kentucky about 30 miles from here. I heard it used to be a hot bed for moonshining because of a natural spring there. Just wondering I know it is probably a different Beaver Dam but it is very coincidental. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:48 PM I thought everyone learned Copper Kettle from the Joan Baez recording. I notice it doesn't show up on any of Joe's searches, above - you'd have to search on "drink" or "whiskey" or "jugs" to find it (and, as Joe says, you're likely to get false positives with those search terms). |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST Date: 28 Oct 08 - 07:59 PM "Beaver Dam" comes from the North Carolina traditional singer Frank Proffitt. The notes booklet for his Folkways album is missing, and I don't remember whether he composed it, though I suspect he did. There was a Beaver Dam Road in his neighborhood (Watauga Co, NC, I believe). Proffitt composed another moonshine song, "Blackberry Wine," which is on one of his Folk-Legacy LPs and deserves to be better known. Can't pass without mentioning "We Have Moonshine in the West Virginia Hills" by Roy Harvey. Uncle Dave recomposed it as "Moonshine in the Cannon County Hills." UDM also deals with moonshine in "Governor Al Smith" and "Hill Billie Blues," to mention only a couple of his songs which got onto the subject of whiskey good and bad. Harvey's repertoire included "When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger" and "Bootlegger's Dream of Home." The Allen Bros did a memorable "Jake Walk Blues," dealing with a particularly toxic form of home made liquor that had a surge around 1930. It was made from Jamaica ginger and frequently resulted in death or motor impairment to the drinker. There are two different songs called "Bay Rum Blues," about yet another alcohol substitute -- drinking hair tonic. On the same score is Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat Blues," about the pleasures of straining alcohol off Sterno to get a buzz. The Dixon Bros celebrated the end of prohibition with a song called "(What Are We Going to Do with) The Old Home Brew." |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Azizi Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:16 AM Oh, so you don't mean songs like "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"? ;o) |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Richie Date: 29 Oct 08 - 09:24 AM Hi Jayto I've played, "I Get My Whiskey from Rockingham" also known as "Rockingham Cindy." I just moved to Kentucky. Richie |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: theleveller Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:18 PM See if you can unearth a great album by The New Lost City Ramblers, 'Songs of Moonshine and Prohbition'. I've got a copy on vinyl somewhere that I bought way back in the mid-60s. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,henryp Date: 29 Oct 08 - 01:51 PM From The Music Box Viola Lee Blues -- Cannon's Jug Stompers Cannon's Jug Stompers actually recorded the song twice, and both are available on an outstanding two-disc collection of the complete works of Gus Cannon and Noah Lewis (Document, 1990). The two differ in one very significant way. The "I wrote a letter, mailed it in the…" verse is sung only on the second, unreleased take. The first, slightly longer take, replaces that verse with this one: Fix my supper Mama, let me go to her Let me go to bed indeed Lord Fix my supper, let me go to bed I been drinking white lightning, it's gone to my head |
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Subject: ADD Version: Moonshiner (Jay Farrar/Uncle Tupelo) From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:49 PM MOONSHINER From Jay Farrar and Uncle Tupelo I've(Em) been a(C) moon(G)shiner for seventeen long (D)years and I (Em)spent all(C) my (G)money on whiskey and (D)beer and I (C)go to some(D) hollow and (G)set up my (C)still if (Em)whiskey (C)don't (G)kill me Lord, I don't know what(D) will and I go to some barroom to drink with my friends where the women they can't follow to see what I spend God bless them pretty women I wish they was mine with breath as sweet as the dew on the vine let me eat when I'm hungry let me drink when I'm dry two dollars when I'm hard up religion when I die the whole world is a bottle and life is but a dram when the bottle gets empty Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn slow tempo, if you want to try it |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MOONSHINE MAN (Si Kahn) From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 30 Oct 08 - 04:15 PM MOONSHINE MAN (Si Kahn) As recorded by Si Kahn on "New Wood" (1974) Pale moon shining on Georgia Five, I'm so tired I can hardly drive. Back jacked up so my tail don't drag so low. One eye looking for the curves in the road, Other eye watching for the State Patrol, I'm headed for Atlanta with a hundred-gallon load, Look out; I'm a moonshine man. Daddy's standing guard and Mama's out back, Dumping all that sugar out of fifty-pound sacks, With the shift of the wind, you can smell that mash so strong. Five hundred gallons in a dead mans still, If the night don't get you then the morning will. I'm headed for Atlanta with a hundred-gallon load, Look out; I'm a moonshine man. If this ain't a Depression then it's sure hard times, Corn has got so hard to find. Propane's up and sugar's gone so high. Sheriff's a-waiting at the county line, We're cutting him in so he don't mind, I'm headed for Atlanta with a hundred-gallon load, Look out; I'm a moonshine man. Well, I want to die in a feather bed, With a jug of white whiskey under my head. Lay me out in a six-foot copper still. When I get to heaven gonna dress in white, Gonna sell it to the angels on Saturday night. I'm heading for Atlanta with a hundred-gallon load, Look out; I'm a moonshine man. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Banjovey Date: 30 Oct 08 - 10:27 PM How about Prohibition Blues? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD (R Mitchum) From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 31 Oct 08 - 12:16 AM I will agree with SORCHA on "Thunder Road" but you need to be careful - I sincerely hope she is referring to "The Ballad of Thunder Road" and that it is NOT Bruce Springsteen's love song.
The Thunder Road song is taken from the film by the same name.
Let me tell the story; I can tell it all,
Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town,
CHORUS: And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road.
On the first of April, nineteen fifty-four,
"Son," his daddy told him, "make this run your last. CHORUS
Roaring out of Harlan, revvin' up his mill,
Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike, It is the actor Robert Mitchum's version - I first heard on a collection of "Hot Rod Songs" It had a powerful influence on me...as strong as "Convoy" and "Minstrel's Son" and "Rubber Ducky." Check IMDB.com (International Movie Data Base) for the 1958 film starring Mitchum. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: trevek Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:07 AM Macilhatton (written by Bobby Sands, sung by Christy Moore) http://www.irishhungerstrike.com/mcilhatton.html White Lightning (J.P. Richardson aka The Big Bopper) http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/white-lightning---george-jones-14938.html The Moonshiner: http://www.irish-song-lyrics.com/The_Moonshiner.shtml |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,Black Hawk on works PC Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:11 AM 'I Remember Her Still' by Jimmy Driftwood Clever play on words! |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:35 PM I have a soft spot for "Hills of Connemara". But of course here in IONA territory it's hard *not* to be a fan of that one, given their high-energy rendition! 8-) -- Gary |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BOOTLEGGER'S SONG / BERT LaFOUNTAIN'S... From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Oct 08 - 09:23 PM The Canadian group Tanglefoot have contributed "Dollar Bill." Oscar Brand recorded a classic bootlegger song on his American Drinking Songs album back in the Pleistocene: Earliest recording by Emry Arthur, C3663, 1929 Recorded on AMERICAN DRINKING SONGS, RLP 12-630 , Riverside, Circa 1956 After the singing of Oscar Brand Tune: after "The Wabash Cannonball" Bootlegger's Song (Bert LaFountain's Packard) It was on a Monday morning I headed for the North, 'Long a road I often traveled while running back and forth; I crossed the old St. Lawrence, down into Montreal, And I loaded down my Packard with beer and alcohol. I loaded 'er down with alkyhol; I topped 'er off with ale, I headed for the border; I knew I must not fail; They signaled at me with searchlights and a rifle call, But I rolled right through the Customs with a load of alkyhol. The troopers and the revenuers soon took up the chase, But I was doing 95 and steady held my pace; I drove right through Moirah, down through Malone, And the only way they caught me was by the telephone. I wheeled in Turner's Crossing; there was a train acrost the road; That's how they caught the Packard; that's how they caught the load; And now I'm in the jail, boys; I guess I lost it all, Waiting for my trial a-scheduled in the fall. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: AnneMC Date: 01 Nov 08 - 02:40 AM Look up the band Gopher Baroque ( www.gopherbaroque.com). They have some awesome tunes they have written, including "Shipwrecked Whiskey" and "The Smuggler's Song" about smuggling the illegal stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,Rich Date: 02 Nov 08 - 12:44 AM Copperhead Road by Steve Earle. Some folks at a session I used to pop in on occasionally used to sing a song with the chorus "and the lamb will lay down with the lion after drinking that old moonshine" but I don't remember much of it. Rich |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 02 Nov 08 - 11:36 AM Dollar Bill's a good one! Lyrics here . -- Gary |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BAR THE DOOR / JOAN AND JOHN BLOUNT From: GUEST,Alaska Paul Date: 06 Nov 08 - 04:45 PM This is not exactly a moonshine song, but it is an ale song, from Newfoundland via England, I guess. Get Up and Bar the Door or JOAN AND JOHN BLOUNT There was an old couple lived under a hill Joan and John Blount they were called, oh They brewed great ale all for to sell They brewed it wonderful well, oh John Blount and his wife drank some of his ale Till they could drink no more, oh They both went to bed with a drop in their head And forgot to bar the door, oh A bargain, a bargain this old couple made A bargain firm and sure, oh The very first one that should speak the first word Should go down to bar the door oh Along came travelers, travelers three Traveling in the night oh No house nor shelter could they find No fire nor candle light oh And straight to John Blount's house they went And boldly opened the door oh But not one word did the old couple say For fear one should bar the door oh They ate of his victuals, they drank of his drink Till they could drink no more oh But not one word did the old couple say For fear one should bar the door oh Then straight upstairs these travelers went And took the old woman out of her bed And kissed her on the floor oh But not one word did the old couple say For fear one should bar the door oh "You've eat of my victuals, you drank of my drink You've kissed my wife on the floor oh" "John Blount" she said, "You've spoke the first word Go down and bar the door oh" "If you don't like what they did unto me They kissed me on the floor oh Take this to be as a warning see Every night you bar the door oh" |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Jayto Date: 06 Nov 08 - 07:31 PM That's cool Ritchie.Are you Eastern, Central, or Western? Welcome to the Bluegrass State hope you like it :) JT |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST Date: 29 Dec 08 - 08:01 PM Great David Via Moonshine Tune/Video. Hotwax and the Splinters perform on the back porch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sncgk3a_2b0 |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Date: 29 Dec 08 - 08:26 PM Has anyone heard an old recording of Peter Bellamy singing, "I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years....?" I taught it to him, walking around the grounds at the Newport Folk Festival, the year that the group Young Tradition was there. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 29 Dec 08 - 08:37 PM Tommy Makem's "Paddy Kelly's Brew". Or "Here's to the Crayture". Seamus |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Artful Codger Date: 30 Dec 08 - 01:53 AM "John Law Burned Down the Liquor Store"? |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Dave Hanson Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:02 AM Anyone remember that scene in the film ' Deliverence,' sat round the campfire and Ronny Cox singing......... It's red meat when I'm hungry, Moonshine when I'm dry, Greenbacks when I'm hard up, Religion when I die. Does anyone know the rest of it ? eric |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COPPER KETTLE (Joan Baez) From: jO mAPES Date: 30 Dec 08 - 04:21 AM 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.] |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:34 AM I don't know that it specifically refers to moonshine, but I occasionally did a song during my army service in the northwest years ago called "Nancy Whiskey." My decision to use that song in a particular set once caused some grief for me when a certain young lady folksinger (who happened to be named Nancy) let me know, in no uncertain terms, that she hated the song. I was quite smitten with her at the time and immediately struck it from my playlist - at least, whenever she was in the audience. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Artful Codger Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:00 PM eric: That verse is a floating one; can pop up in a number of songs, e.g. "Jack of Diamonds" and "Kentucky Moonshiner". Haven't watched "Deliverance", so I don't know which tune it was sung to and hence what song it's most likely to be. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,panack Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:39 PM Does anyone have the lyrics to David Via's "Moonshine in the Moonlight," mentioned a few posts above? |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST Date: 13 Nov 10 - 09:03 PM Hell on wheels by Brantley Gilbert and Copperhead Road by steve earle |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Louie Roy Date: 13 Nov 10 - 10:48 PM The booze hound lament |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:06 PM one I wrote Lightning Road |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD SHINE CROW (Finders & Youngberg) From: AnneMC Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:24 AM THE OLD SHINE CROW by Finders and Youngberg Late at night when the moon is high, And darkness is fallen on the hill You can't see the men sneaking through the trees, But you can hear the creaking of a still For many years now he's worked every night, On a secret that only he knows When lone strangers come, through that forest at night, It's said that they never return home - the Old Shine Crow Now the story it is told and many believe, That it's evil and livin' in those hills The liquor that flows down from that dark mountain side, Is laced with the blood of those he kills On a bright moonlit night, the men from the town, rode out into the darkness beyond What was waiting for them on that cruel mountain side Didn't want them to see the light of dawn - the old Shine Crow The call of the crows filled their ears as they rode, And fear gripped their hearts with the chill The beating of the wings that covered the beating of his heart And they followed that evil course up to the still The moonshine illumed him in the midst of his crows It was time for this town to be free And then circled around, With their guns and the rope and they shot him and they hung him from a tree - the old Shine Crow Now late at night when the moon is high and darkness has fallen on the hills - the Old Shine Crow |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Melissa Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:36 AM What a waste of good corn likker Mac Wiseman |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Stewie Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:44 AM Not a song, but a rap - Lord Buckley's 'God's own drunk'. Here. --Stewie. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BOOZEFIGHTERS (from Gandydancer) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Dec 11 - 05:58 PM One of those serendipitous discoveries—but GUEST,Rich did mention this earlier. BOOZEFIGHTERS "Traditional" As sung by Gandydancer on the various-artists collection "The Appalachians" (Dualtone Music #1201, 2005) Come on, all you booze fighters, if you want 'o hear About the kind o' booze that we sell around here. It's made way back in the swamps an' the hills Where there's plenty o' moonshine stills, Where we don't give a damn for the Volstead law, And for prohibition we don't care a straw. It's made out o' buckwheat, rye, an' corn, All bottled up in some barn. And the lamb'll lay down with the lion After drinkin' this old moonshine. Tip up your head an' take a little drink, Then for a week you won't be able to think. First thing you know, you'll be getting' kind o' tight, Out on the street tryin' to raise a fight. Tip up your head an' take a little more; Then for a month you'll be feelin' kind o' sore; Then you'll swear you won't drink it any more, But you've said that a thousand times before. And the lamb'll lay down with the lion After drinkin' this old moonshine. One drop'll make a rabbit whip a bulldog. One drop'll make a cat chase a wild hog, Make a bullfrog spit in a blacksnake's face, Make a hard-shell preacher fall from grace. And the lamb'll lay down with the lion After drinkin' this old moonshine. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Lonesome EJ Date: 02 Dec 11 - 01:26 AM Moonshiner A video I did for a rendition of Moonshiner as charted in my post in 2008. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,aging cynic Date: 02 Dec 11 - 07:37 AM i have a sone called 'moonshine' it's about the intoxicating effects of the moon sung by a woman from the virginia hills, accomopanied by a big old kay bass you can find it here: you'll need to scroll way down to 'moonshine' http://www.daveshiflett.com/music.html or send me and email and i'll send you an mp3: dshifl@aol.com |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: GUEST,Cruiseinbob Date: 01 Dec 12 - 02:59 PM Hello Check out www.crookedroadmusic.com for more great Moonshine Songs |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 01 Dec 12 - 03:48 PM I wrote a few on the subject myself, one of which was my biggest hit that went tinfoil with a bullet: 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I LEFT MY HOME AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, AS SOBER AS COULD BE HEADING INTO MABOU TO BUY A POUND OF TEA TOMMY FRASER MET ME AS I WALKED ALONG THE ROAD HE SAID " JUMP UP INTO THE CAB ,WE'RE HEADING TO GLENCOE." (CHORUS) BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I MUST HAVE LOST MY WAY I DIDN'T MAKE IT HOME THAT NIGHT OR FOR ANOTHER DAY BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I WENT UPON A SPREE AND IF THERE'S MOONSHINE IN THE JUG THEN PASS IT ON TO ME TOMMY DROVE THE OLD FORD LIKE A DEMON THROUGH THE RUTS POTHOLES BANGING ON THE SPRINGS, A ROOSTER TAIL OF DUST BUT HE PULLED HER OVER WHEN WE GOT TO JOE MAC LEAN'S A GALLON JUG OF MOONSHINE WAS OUR PURCHASE THERE THAT DAY (CHORUS) WE HEADED INTO MABOU AND WE WENT TO LITTLE NEIL'S AND HE TOOK DOWN HIS FIDDLE FOR TO PLAY SOME JIGS AND REELS SOON THE NEIGHBORS GATHERED AND A CEILIDH'S UNDER WAY AND THEN WE DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN IF IT WAS NIGHT OR DAY (CHORUS) WHEN I FINALLY MADE IT HOME MY WIFE WAS AT THE DOOR GIVING ME A LECTURE LIKE I NEVER HAD BEFORE SHE ASKED ME WHERE THE HELL I'D BEEN AND WHAT I HAD TO SAY "BETWEEN 8 O'CLOCK AND MABOU I MUST HAVE LOST MY WAY." (CHORUS) (c)1999 A.McLean Note: I sing it in D and the air is close enough to Wabash Cannonball to give folks a good idea of the song. Note that Mabou is a village in Cape Breton that was home to The Rankin Family and John Allen Cameron as well as many other great musicians and it continues to produce more and more. Sandy |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MOUNTAIN DEW BLUES (Dick Hartman...) From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Oct 19 - 02:24 PM You can hear this recording at YouTube. MOUNTAIN DEW BLUES [a talking blues] As recorded by Dick Hartman’s Tennessee Ramblers, with Fred “Happy” Morris, vocalist, 1935. (Bluebird B-6105-A) 1. Now, I went up in the mountains t' take a little rest. I thought I'd be sporty, so I wore my vest. Got a hold of a jug and I took a long pull. The first thing I knew I was plumb full. I was fallin' around. Couldn't walk straight. Said I was drunk. 2. Now if you go t'the mountains, I'll tell ya what to do: Drink apple cider; lay off o' mountain dew. There may be gold in them thar hills, But in that jug, boy, there's headache an' chills. It'll make ya right nervous. You'll see little monkeys. Then you'll know you're drunk. 3. Well, it took me ten days to recuperate, So I got drunk again; I met my fate. You could tell by 'er look she was past sixteen. She's a big fat woman and awfully mean. She's a grass widow. Had nine kids. Got a mother-in-law too. 4. Now, I'm just a city dude a-livin' out o' town. Ev'rybody knows there's moonshine around(?). I make the beer an' I drink the slop. I got nine little orphans call me pop. I'm patriotic. Raisin' soldiers, Red Cross nurses. 5. Now when I'm a-drinkin', I get right mean. I feed my kids fat meat while I eat the lean. I feed the old woman on grits an' slaw. I pour castor oil down my mother-in-law. She's a-gettin' old. Kind o' rusty. She'll never get in a hurry. 6. But she has my sympathy when I'm sober, 'Cause she hasn't got a man to rub her all over. She's got rheumatiz' up an' down 'er back. Caught(?) a snipe-hunt, she's a-holdin' the sack On Decatur Street One Sat'day night. She must 'a' been crazy. 7. When I educate my kids an' put 'em all to work, I'm havin' 'em protect me against fever an'...(?). When I'm old and my feet gets cold, I expect 'em to feed me body an' soul. I'm ambitious, Independent, Lookin' ahead. 8. Now, for a long, long time, I jumped my board. I saved my money an' I bought me a Ford. Paint was bright and the tires was good, But, oh boy, under that hood! Such rattlin'! Pumpin' oil, Radiator leakin'. 9. Now, down in the valley on my knees, I had an old hound; he was full o' fleas, Half on him and half on me. If you know how to scratch, just come an' help me. Such scratchin'! Fightin' fleas. Want to buy a dog? 10. Now, my brother-in-law, he carries the mail When he's sober, not in jail. Got a hook nose and a freckled face. He wears pink shirts trimmed in lace. He's kind o' sissy. Thinks he's pretty. Full o' mud. 11. Now I sold some taters in Atlanta Sat'day night. I bought me some booze; I got pretty tight. Got in a fight an' landed in jail. Didn't have nobody to go my bail. They give me thirty days. Was a mean ol' judge. I think it was a frame-up. 12. Now, I'm free an' white in the prime o' life. I b'lieve in the union, me an' my wife. You at the high-priced comp'ny, NRA, Hopin' mister Roosevelt inflate our pay. Shorter workin' hours. More money. Better liquor to drink. 13. Now, I just got a letter from from the grand ...(?), Signed my the monkeys in the Cannon crew(?). Says Mister Candler beat Atlanta time(?) Unless each citizen sends in a dime. Baboons ravin'. Lions roarin'. Such a noise! 14. Now, I went out a-huntiin' the other night. I got scared and I lost my light. Dogs treed somethin' down in the flat. I thought it was a possum but it's a pretty little cat. I had to leave home. My wife quit me. Had to bury my clo'es. Ain't it a pity! It was the wrong kind of a kitty. |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Mo the caller Date: 07 Oct 19 - 06:39 AM There's a line in The Frost is All Over, which I was told referred to illegal brewing - 'what will we do if the kettle boils over' (because the steam might be noticed) |
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Subject: RE: Moonshine songs From: Joe_F Date: 08 Oct 19 - 06:12 PM Darling Corey |
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