Butch Ross – Moonshiner lyrics

well I am a moonshiner
for 17 long years
and I spent all my money
on whiskey and beer
and i go to some holler
and set up my still...
...if drinking don't kill me
Lord I don't know what will

and I go to some barroom
to drink with my friends
where the women, they can't follow
to see how much I spend
God bless them pretty women
how i wish that they was mine...
...with breath as sweet as
the dew on the vine.

let me eat when I'm hungry
let me drink when I'm dry
two dollars when I'm hard up
religion when I die
the whole world is but a bottle
and life is but a dram...

...when the bottle is empty
Lord it sure ain't worth a damn.