Copper Kettle lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Self Portrait

Lyrics

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil
Fill it with new-made corn mash and never more you'll toil
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling
In the pale moonlight
Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood; they'll get you by the smoke
We'll just lay there by the juniper... etc
My daddy, he made whiskey; my granddaddy, he did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
We just lay there by the juniper... etc
(Last line repeated)