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 a damn