Moonshiner's Daughter

Moonshiner’s Daughter
Written by Cindy Giejda (Copyright 2018 Pennsylvania Mountain Music/BMI)

CHORUS:
I’m nothin’ more than a moonshiner’s daughter
Sloane Payne is my name
They shot my daddy dead in that forsaken holler
And I’m never going back again
Never going back again

VERSE 1:
Here’s the tale of my youth
If you care to hear the truth
A barefoot child the age of 9
No baby dolls, just a Colt 45
Had to guard against my will
The secret of that whiskey still

CHORUS:
I’m nothin’ more than a moonshiner’s daughter
Sloane Payne is my name
They shot my daddy dead in that forsaken holler
And I’m never going back again
Never going back again

VERSE 2:
Mama prayed on bended knee
To keep us all from poverty
But not one prayer was ever heard
To keep my daddy, true to his word
He promised to give up that shine
Go back to working in the mine

CHORUS:
I’m nothin’ more than a moonshiner’s daughter
Sloane Payne is my name
They shot my daddy dead in that forsaken holler
And I’m never going back again
Never going back again

VERSE 3:
The saddest day I ever saw
Was when the sheriff came for my pa
They warned him a 1,000 times
Bootleggin’ on this mountain, was a crime
He still fought and stood his ground
That’s when they shot my daddy down

REPEAT CHORUS