Susan Graham Pepper - God Bless Them Moonshiners

11. God Bless Them Moonshiners
(trad. from Jean Ritchie)

I’ve been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer
I’ll come up some holler, I’ll build me a still
I’ll sell you a gallon for a two-dollar bill

I’ll go to the alehouse, I’ll drink with my friends,
No woman to follow to see what I spend
God bless them moonshiners, I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine

I’ll eat when I’m hungry, I’ll drink when I’m dry
Pretty women when I’m lonesome, sweet heaven when I die
God bless them moonshiners, I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine

God bless them moonshiners, I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine