Moonshiner

Been a moonshiner since the day I was born,

I drunk up all my money and

I stilled up all my corn,

Been a moonshiner and I’m numb to pain,

If you could have been me,

You’d have done the same,

Came into the world rugged at the get go,

A deep dark hole got dug out of the meadow,

Looking back it’s just a blanket of gray,

I lived all the trouble then I drank it away.

I've seen so many good people laid in the shade,

I’ve been around,

I’ve seen many a good maiden betrayed,

Look into that cup it’s a crying shame,

Better to live high than to die in pain,

Been a moonshiner since the day I was born,

I drunk up all my money

I stilled up my corn,

If I had them I'd fly away with a couple I wings,

But I just have my way with the trouble it brings.

Time and again her papa just told her no,

Time and again I see her now

Getting older slow,

We never did to come to pass,

There’s still fun,

But I can’t get fun to last,

Come on moonshiners, stand in a row,

I see you looking abandoned and low,

There’s a lot that could have been

That you couldn’t be true to,

It’s a bad feeling I know it better than you do.

Too many old biscuits and leftover flapjacks,

And under my bed,

Too many little satchels and backpacks,

Loved the girls since I came to life,

My testament I blessed them in the name of Christ,

So be mine babe, you get a cart and bull,

Billy goat gruff and liquor by the carton-full

Be mine,

You get a diamond ring,

Live in an oak tree all the time and sing,

But I’ve been a moonshiner since the day I was born,

I drunk up all my money and

I stilled up all of my corn,

Tell me to quit it and every day I’ll try,

But I’ll be a moonshiner till the day I die.