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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Moonshiner</h1>
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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 &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21 <p>Capo 4th fret (sounding key C# minor)<br />
  22 Standard fingerpicking.</p>
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  24 <p>C/g (332010) is played in the turns around F. In the longer stretches
  25 (such as from &ldquo;moonshiner&rdquo; to &ldquo;years&rdquo; 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.</p>
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  31 <p>Intro:</p>
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  33 Am . . . . . . C/g . . . . .
  34 F . . . C/g . . . . . . . . . . .
  35
  36      Am     C/g F   C/g                       G7
  37 I've been a-a   moonshiner for seventeen long years
  38        Am      C/g F C/g                  G7
  39 I've spent all my-y  money on whiskey an' beer
  40   F          G          C/g       F
  41 I go to some hollow and set up my still
  42        Am   C/g F      C/g                            G7
  43 And if whiskey   don't kill me then I don't know what will.
  44
  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.
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  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.
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