Copper Kettle

Words & Music:

Albert Frank Beddoe

 

C         G      C                 G      C

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil

E                     Am             Dm                  G

Covered with new-made corn mash, and never more you will toil.

As you...

 

CHORUS:

Am               Em       Am        C       E

Lay there by the juniper, while the moon is bright.

Am                G       Am     Em       Am

Watch them jugs a-fillin' in the pale moonlight.

 

 

My daddy, he made whisky, my grand-daddy, he did, too.

We ain't paid no whisky tax since 1792.

We just...

 

CHORUS:

 

Build your fire with hickory; hickory, ash, and oak.

Don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by the smoke.

While you...

 

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