Lyrics

COPPER KETTLE (A. F. Beddoe)

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil
Fill it with new made corn mash
and never more you'll toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is shining so bright
and we watch them just a-filling in by the pale moonlight

Make you a fire of hickory, hickory, ash and oak
You don't use green or honey wood
'cause they wll get you by the smoke
You'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is shining so bright
and we watch them just a-filling by the pale moonlight

Grandad he made whiskey and my grandmama she did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
We'll just lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright
and we watch them just a-filling by the pale moonlight

Now every ten years or so a state trooper comes on our land
and we felt him fall of Berkshire Den
stringing up by his green troopers hand.
We'll just lay out by the juniper
while the moon is shining so bright
And we watch them just a-filling by the pale moonlight