I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer
In a while on some holler I'll build me my steel
And I'll make you a gallon or a two dollar bill
I'll go to some grocery, I'll drink with my friends
No women to follow me to see what I spend
God bless those pretty women, I wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine
Well it's cornbread when I'm hungry, corn liquor when I'm dry
And it's green grass when I'm hard up, and religion when I die
The world's but a bottle and life's but a dime
When the bottle is empty it ain't worth a damn
I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer
In a while on some holler I'll build me my steel
And I'll make you a gallon or a two dollar bill