[Verse 1]

I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

I've spent all my money

On whiskey and beers

And I'll go to some hollow

And set up my still

And if whiskey don't kill me

Then I don't know what will

[Verse 2]

And I go to some bar room

And drink with my friends

Where the women can't follow

Can't see what I spend

God bless them pretty women

I wish they was mine

Their breath is as sweet as

The dew on the vine

[Verse 3]

Let me eat when I'm hungry

Let me drink when I'm dry

Give me a dollar 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

It sure ain't worth a damn