Copper Kettle - Nora Brown
Tuning: , E A D G B E
'COPPER KETTLE'
A traditional song performed by Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman. This is a very simplfied version
of the chords, which Nora Brown plucks with a lot of walk-downs/ups and hammer-ons. Watch if you want to work
out the picking more precisely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQDxUEcp7s :)
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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
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]
You just lay t
here by the ju
niper
While the moon
is bright
Watch them jug
s a-filling
In the pale mo
onlight
[Verse 2]
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]
You just lay t
here by the ju
niper
While the moon
is bright
Watch them jug
s a-filling
In the pale mo
onlight
[Verse 3]
My daddy made
whiskey
My grandmama d
id too
They ain't pai
d no whiskey t
ax
Since 1792
[Chorus]
You just lay t
here by the ju
niper
While the moon
is bright
Watch them jug
s a-filling
In the pale mo
onlight
[Outro]