Misc Originals – 7 South - Moonshine Man (Guitar)

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There lived a man back years ago in the bottom of a holler

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He made moonshine in a cooper line, it was the best in the land

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He lived alone by a garden of stone, never tried to make a family

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His shotgun and his still were his only friends

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So the legend says of the moon-shine man.

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Then one June by the light of the moon a family moved in up the road

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He was headed to town to make his rounds and deliver his weekly load.

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As he passed a shack he was taken back he could not believe his eyes,

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Standing there in a cotton dress was the prettiest girl alive.

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Moonshine man doing all he can, to keep out of trouble

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going to town, making rounds and watching whiskey bubble,

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he was laying low never moving slow, he never had not time for love

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his shotgun and his still were his only friends

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so the legend says of the moon-shine man.

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But that girl in the cotton dress had her eyes on another

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the moonshine man just oculdnt stand that she wasnt his to hold,

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so he shot her down and put her in the ground, then he died by his own hand

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The blood ran through the holler where the whiskey ran

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so the legend says of the moon-shine man.

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Moonshine man doing all he can, to keep out of trouble

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going to town, making rounds and watching whiskey bubble,

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he was laying low never moving slow, he never had not time for love

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his shotgun and his still was his only friends

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so the legend says of the moon-shine man.