“Moonshine”

Description

"Come all you booze fighters, if you want to hear, 'Bout the kind of liquor that they sell around here...." The great power of the product is described: "One drop'll make a rabbit lick a hound dog." The large number of 'shiners and revenuers is mentioned

Supplemental text

Moonshine
  Partial text(s)

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From Anne Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne &
Frank Warner Collection, #131, p. 307. From the singing of
Frank Proffitt, Watauga County, North Carolina, 1938.

Come all you booze fighters, if you want to hear,
'Bout the kind of liquor that they sell around here.
It's made way back in the lonesome hills,
Where there's plenty of moonshine stills.

(6 additional stanzas)

Recordings

• Fruit Jar Guzzlers, "Kentucky Bootlegger" (Paramount 3113, 1928)
• Buell Kazee, "Moonshiner Song" (on Kazee01)
• New Lost City Ramblers, "Kentucky Moonshiner" (on NLCR08)
• Red Fox Chasers, "Virginia Bootlegger" (Champion 15790 [as Virginia Possum Tamers]/Supertone 9492, 1929)

References

1. Warner 131, "Moonshine" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. BrownIII 42, "Moonshine" (1 text)
3. Silber-FSWB, p. 230, "Kentucky Bootlegger" (1 text)
4. ST Wa131 (Partial)
5. Roud #3126
6. BI, Wa131