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By droopy on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 02:47 am:

    this is an old folk song i first heard a cappella by a guy named roscoe holcombe. then i heard dylan doing a version that had been worked up by carl sandburg in a minor key. then i heard an irish version in a major key. i wanted to learn how to play it on guitar. this is a combination of all of those versions with a few alterations of my own. i play it in a minor, 3/4 time.


    I've been a moonshiner for many a long year
    I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer
    I'll go up some dark holler, I'll set up my still
    I'll still you one gallon for a two dollar bill

    Now it's meat when I'm hungry, corn liquor when I'm dry,
    It's greenbacks when I'm hard-up, and religion when I die.
    God bless all moonshiners and bless all moonshine
    Oh, their breath smells as sweet as the dew on the vine.

    I'll go to some hollow in this country,
    Ten gallons of moonshine, I can go on a spree.
    No women to follow, the world is all mine,
    And I love none so well as I love the moonshine.

    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've been a moonshiner, ever since the day I was born
    I've drunk up all of my money and stilled up all of my corn.
    I'll go up some dark hollow and put up a moonshine still
    And I'll make you one gallon for a five dolla' bill.

    I'll go up some dark hollow and get you some booze
    If the revenuers don't get me, no money will I lose.
    Come now, all ye moonshiners, and stand all in a row
    You look so sad and lonesome, lonesome, yes, I know.

    Oh, moonshine, dear moonshine, Oh, how I love thee.
    You killed many men, but you are good by me.
    Now the whole world's a bottle, and a man just sips from it.
    And when a bottle gets empty, it ain't worth shit.

By eri on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:29 am:

    Hahahahahah.....finally a song mentioned on here that I know of and have heard before! Woo hoo!
    Thanks Droopy!

By Spider on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 01:35 pm:

    Droop, are you working up a set list? Hey, you should get yourself a four-track or a good tape recorder, record yourself performing, and then mail it to us.

    I'm going to ignore the copyright issues, and the paper I'm supposed to be writing about copyright issues, for the time being.

By droopy on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 02:53 pm:

    i'm working up a set of songs to play for my own uses. a year ago, i bought the tascam 4-track nate pointed me to. doesn't mean i'm going to send people tapes.

By Spider on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 03:38 pm:

    WHY NOT.

By Dr Pepper on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 02:20 am:

    I have tried a shot of Moonshine. Oh Boy!

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