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7 <title>Moonshiner
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Trad (aka The Bottle song, Moonshine blues or Kentucky Moonshiner), arr. Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Recorded August
12 1963 (
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../03_times/index.htm">The Times They Are A-changin'
</a>
18 sessions), and released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">The Bootleg Series
1-
3</a> (
1991)
<br />
19 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
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21 <p>Capo
4th fret (sounding key C# minor)
<br />
22 Standard fingerpicking.
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24 <p>C/g (
332010) is played in the turns around F. In the longer stretches
25 (such as from
“moonshiner
” to
“years
” in the first line), it
26 changes to a plain C chord, i.e. the bass goes from only picking the
27 low G, to alternating between C and G on the
5th and
6th strings.
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33 Am . . . . . . C/g . . . . .
34 F . . . C/g . . . . . . . . . . .
37 I've been a-a moonshiner for seventeen long years
39 I've spent all my-y money on whiskey an' beer
41 I go to some hollow and set up my still
43 And if whiskey don't kill me then I don't know what will.
45 I'd go to some bar room and drink with my friends
46 Where the women can't follow an' see what I've spent
47 God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine
48 Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine.
50 Let me eat when I'm hungry, let me drink when I'm dry
51 Hmm, dollars when I'm hard up, religion when I die
52 The whole world's a bottle an' life's but a dram
53 When a bottle gets empty, it sure ain't worth a damn.