I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years I've spent all of my money on whiskey and beer I'll go to some hollow and I'll set up my still And I'll sell you a gallon for a ten dollar bill Then I'll go to the bar room where I drink with my friends Where the women can't follow to see what I spend God bless them pretty women, I wish one was mine Because her breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine Give me food when I'm hungry, gimme drink when I'm dry A dollar when I'm hard up, religion when I die Only then if this whole world's a bottle, their life's but a dram When the bottle is empty it sure ain't worth a damn I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years I've spent all of my money on whiskey and beer I'll go to some hollow and I'll set up my still And if the whiskey don't kill me, I don't know what will