Moonshiner Songtext

von Rodolphe Burger

(Cette chanson a été enregistrée par Bob Dylan pour l'album "The Times They Are A-Changing" (1964), mais a été éliminée de la version finale et a refait surface seulement en 1991 sur "The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3". Sur le disque de Burger, la chanson est attribué à Dylan, mais il s'agit d'une chanson traditionelle irlandaise.)

I've been a Moonshiner,
For seventeen long years,
I've spent all my money,
On whiskey and beer,
I go to some hollow,
And sit at my still
And if whiskey dont kill me,
Then I dont know what will,

I go to some bar room,
And drink with my friends,
Where the women can't follow,
And see what I spend,
God bless them pretty women,
I wish they was mine,
Their breath is as sweet as,
The dew on the vine,

Let me eat when I am hungry,
Let me drink when I am dry,
A few dollars when I am hard up,
Religion when I die,
The whole world's a bottle,
And life's but a dram (/been drowned?),
When the bottle gets empty,
It sure aint worth a damn.