There is no telling what project I may be into at any given moment. Folk/psychedelic, or blues/punk, or experimental. I am not interested in your categorizations about genre.
Tradtional folk song. The song is so old no one knows it's original writer. In the old days, moonshiners had to sneak out into the woods, by the "shine" of the moon, in order to operate their stills. They often lead lonely lives of solitude, where everbody depended on them, but nobody "loved" them.
Lyrics
"Moonshiner"
I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I've spent all my money on whiskey an' beer
I go to some hollow and set up my still
If whiskey don't kill me then i don't know what will.
I'd go to some bar room and drink with my friends
Where the women can't follow an' see what i've spent
God bless those pretty women, i wish they was mine
Their breath is as sweet as the dew on the vine.
Let me eat when i'm hungry, moonshine when i'm dry
Greenbacks when i'm hard up, religion when i die
The whole world is a bottle an' life's but a dram
When a bottle gets empty, god it ain't worth a damn.
I've been a moonshiner for seventeen long years
I spent all my money on whiskey an' beer
I'd go to some hollow and set up my still
And if whiskey don't get me then i don't know what will.
