Copper Kettle - Jump Little Children

Get you a copper kettle

Get you a copper coil

Fill it with new made cornmash

And never more you’ll toil.

You’ll just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is bright

Watch the jugs a’filling

In the pale moonlight.

My daddy, he made whiskey

And my grandaddy did too

We ain’t paid no whiskey tax

Since seventeen ninety-two.

You’ll just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is bright

Watch the jugs a’filling

In the pale moonlight.

Make you’re fire with hickory

Hickory, ash, and oak

Don’t use no green or rotten wood

They’ll catch you by the smoke.

You’ll just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is bright

Watch the jugs a’filling

In the pale moonlight.

Get you a copper kettle

Get you a copper coil

Fill it with new made cornmash

And never more you’ll toil.

You’ll just lay there by the juniper

While the moon is bright

Watch the jugs a’filling

In the pale moonlight

In the pale moonlight.