Copper Kettle - Joan Baez

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[Intro]




[Verse]

            
Get you a copp

            
er kettle,   
            
Get you a copp

   
er coil,
             
Fill it with n

        
ew-made corn m

ash 
            
And never more

        
 you'll toil.


[Chorus]

            
As you lay the

          
re by the juni

per
            
while the moon

   
 is bright,
            
Watch them jug

    
s a-filling
          
In the pale mo

  
onlight.


[Verse]

            
My daddy, he m

    
ade whiskey; 
            
My grand-daddy

         
, he did too.
             
We ain't paid 

   
no whiskey tax

 
            
Since seventee

         
n ninety-two.


[Chorus]


            
As you lay the

          
re by the juni

per
            
while the moon

   
 is bright,
            
Watch them jug

    
s a-filling
          
In the pale mo

  
onlight.



[Verse]

            
Build you a fi

        
re with hickor

y, 
            
Hickory, ash a

   
nd oak,
             
Don't use no g

        
reen or rotten

 wood; 
            
They'll get yo

         
u by the smoke

.


[Chorus]

            
As you lay the

          
re by the juni

per
            
while the moon

   
 is bright,
            
Watch them jug

    
s a-filling
          
In the pale mo

  
onlight.



[Verse]

            
Get you a copp

            
er kettle,   
            
Get you a copp

   
er coil,
             
Fill it with n

        
ew-made corn m

ash 
            
And never more

        
 you'll toil.

[Chorus]

            
As you lay the

          
re by the juni

per
            
while the moon

   
 is bright,
            
Watch them jug

    
s a-filling
          
In the pale mo

  
onlight.

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