i ve been a moonshiner for seventeen long years and i spent all my money on whiskey and beer and i go to some hollow and set up my still if whiskey don t kill me lord i don t know what will and i go to some barroom to drink with my friends where the women they can t follow to see what i spend god bless them pretty women i wish they was mine with breath as sweet as the dew on the vine let me eat when i m hungry let me drink when i m dry two dollars when i m hard up religion when i die the whole world is a bottle and life is but a dram when the bottle gets empty lord it sure ain t worth a damn