I've been a moonshiner
For seventeen long years
I've spent all my money
On whiskey and beers
In a wild, lonesome holler
I'll build me my still
And I'll make you a gallon
For a two-dollar bill

I'll go to some grocery
I'll drink with my friends
No women to follow me
To see what I spend
God bless those pretty women
I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet
As the dew on the vine

Well, it's cornbread when I'm hungry
Corn liquor when I'm dry
And it's greenbacks when I'm hard-up
And religion when I die
The world's but a bottle
And Iife's but a dram
When the bottle is empty
It ain't worth a damn
I've been a moonshiner
For seventeen long years
I've spent all my money
On whiskey and beers
In a wild, lonesome holler
I'll build me my still
And I'll make you a gallon
For a two-dollar bill