Good old song:
Copper Kettle (or, "The Pale Moonlight") Words and Music by Albert F. Beddoe
copyright 1960 and 1963 by MELODY TRAILS, INC., New York, NY
Copper Kettle
Get you a copper kettle,
Get you a copper coil,
Cover with newmade cornmash
and nevermore you'll toil.
You'll just
[Chorus]
lay there by the juniper
while the moon is bright,
Watch them jugs a-fillin'
in the pale moonlight.
My Daddy he made whiskey,
My Grandaddy did too,
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Since seventeen ninty-two
We just
[Chorus]
Build you a fire with hickory,
Hickory and ash and oak,
Don't use no green or rotten wood,
They'll get you by the smoke
While you
[Chorus]
Get you a copper kettle,
Get you a copper coil,
Cover with new-made corn mash
and nevermore you'll toil.
Corn don't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar
Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
Rocky Top Tennessee
Rocky Top Tennessee