I've been a moonshiner for many a year
I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer
I'll go to some hollow, and I set up me still
And I'll make you a gallon for a ten shillin' bill

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long ways from home
And if you don't like me, well, leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry, and I'll drink when I'm dry
And if moonshine don't kill me, I'll live till I die

I'll go to some hollow in this counterie
Ten gallons of wash, I can go on a spree
No women to follow, the world is all mine
And I love none so well as I love the moonshine

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long ways from home
And if you don't like me, well, leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry, and I'll drink when I'm dry
And if moonshine don't kill me, I'll live till I die

Oh moonshine, dear moonshine, oh how I love thee
You killed me old father, but dare you try me?
Now bless all moonshiners and bless all moonshine
Oh, its breath smells as sweet as the dew on the vine

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long ways from home
And if you don't like me, well, leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry, and I'll drink when I'm dry
And if moonshine don't kill me, I'll live till I die