Copper Kettle
Albert Frank Beddoe
Released by Bob Dylan on Self Portrait
(1970)
tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
The figure in the first lines is (probably) embellished like:
G Am7
: . . .
|-3---3---0-------|
|-0---0---1-------|
|-0---0---0-------|
|-0---0---2-------|
|-2---2---0---0---|
|-3---3-----3-----|
G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7
Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil,
G Am7 G Am7 C /b Am
Fill it with new-made corn mash and never more you'll toil.
C G
You'll just lay there by the juniper
C G
while the moon is bright,
C /b Am
Watch them jugs a-filling
C(maj7) G
In the pale moonlight.
G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7
Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak,
G Am7 G Am7 C
Don't use no green or rotten wood; they'll get you by the smoke.
G C
You'll just lay there by the juniper
G C
while the moon is bright,
G C
Watch them jugs a-filling
G
In the pale moonlight.
G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7
My daddy, he made whiskey; my granddaddy, he did too.
G Am7 G Am7 ^Am C
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792.
G C
You'll just lay there by the juniper
G C
while the moon is bright,
G C
Watch them jugs a-filling
G
In the pale moonlight.
C G
In the pale moonlight.