"Copper Kettle" lyrics

"Copper Kettle"

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
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight

My daddy he made whiskey, my granddaddy he did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792
You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight


Writer(s): Frank A Beddoe
This song was composed by Albert Frank Beddoe, with Pete Seeger opinion that it dates back to 1946 and has folk origin. Joan Baez made it popular in 1962.
The line "We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792" is a reference to a tax imposed in 1791 by the U.S. Federal Government.