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