Moonshiner

I've been a moonshiner
For seventeen long years
And I spent all my money
On whiskey and beer
And I go to some hollow
To drink with my friends
If whiskey don't kill me
I don't know what will

I go to some barroom
To drink with my friends
Where the women can't follow
To see what I spend
God bless these pretty women
I wish 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
A dollar when I'm hard up
Religion when I die
The whole world is a bottle
And life is but a dram
When the bottle gets empty
It sure ain't worth a damn