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Artist: Cat Power
Canonical path: /cat-power/moonshiner
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Moonshiner
Read Moonshiner lyrics by Cat Power on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Moonshiner
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I've been a moonshiner
For seventeen long years
I spent all my money on whisky and beer
I go to some hollow
And set up my holy holy still
If drinking do not kill me
Then I don't know what will
I go to some bar room
And drink with my friends
If women and men would come to follow
To see what I might spend
God bless them handsome men
I wish they was mine
They're breath is as sweet as
The dew on the holy holy vine
You're already in hell, you're already in hell
I wish we could go to hell
When the bottle gets empty
Then life ain't worth the drown
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