Moonshiner - Bob Forrest

I've been a moonshiner

For seventeen long years

And I've spent all my money

On whiskey and beer

I'd go to some hollow

And sit on my step

And if the whiskey don't kill me

Well then I don't know what will

I go to some bar room

And drink there with my friends

Where the women can't follow

And see what it is I spend

God bless †em pretty women

Oh I wish they was mine

Their breath is as sweet as

The dew on the vine

Let me eat when I am hungry

Let me drink up when I'm dry

Give me a dollar when I'm hard up

Some religion when I die

The whole world is a bottle

Yeah life been but a dram

When the bottle gets empty

Well it sure ain't worth a damn