i m a rambler i m a gambler i m a long way from home and if you don t like me well leave me alone i ll eat when i m hungry i ll drink when i m dry and the moonshine don t kill me i ll live til i die i ve been a moonshiner for many a year i ve spent all me money on whiskey and beer i ll go to some hollow i ll set up my still and i ll make you a gallon for a ten shilling bill i m a rambler i m a gambler i m a long way from home and if you don t like me well leave me alone i ll eat when i m hungry i ll drink when i m dry and the moonshine don t kill me i ll live til i die i ll go to some hollow in this counterie ten gallons of wash i can go on a spree no women to follow the world is all mine i love none so well as i love the moonshine i m a rambler i m a gambler i m a long way from home and if you don t like me well leave me alone i ll eat when i m hungry i ll drink when i m dry and the moonshine don t kill me i ll live til i die oh moonshine dear moonshine oh how i love thee you killed me old father but ah you try me now bless all moonshiners and bless all moonshine their breath smells as sweet as the dew on the vine i m a rambler i m a gambler i m a long way from home and if you don t like me well leave me alone i ll eat when i m hungry i ll drink when i m dry and the moonshine don t kill me i ll live til i die