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Carolina Moonshiner    (1974)

Carolin' Moonshine
Carolin' Moonshine

On yonder side of the Smokey Mountains
Hidden away in the Carolina hills
Guarded by the trees and the weeds and the bushes
Buford Ellis runs a moonshine still

Buford Ellis is the kind of fellar
That don't give a bit if he's a breakin' the law
The fact that whiskey making ain't legal
Don't seem to both old Buford at all

Cause he's a Carolina Moonshiner
A-making that moonshine, drinkin' his fill
A Carolina Moonshiner
If the law don't get him, then the moonshine will

Buford's got a wife and eleven children
People say they ain't nothin but trash
Cause their daddy makes their living
Cookin' and a-canning that Carolina mash

Old bootleggin' Buford is a low-down drunkard
A no-good moonshiner's is all that he is
That's what most folks say about him
At least he's a-feedin' his wife and kids

And he's a Carolina Moonshiner
A-making that moonshine, drinkin' his fill
A Carolina Moonshiner
If the law don't get him, then the moonshine will

Cause he's a Carolina Moonshiner
A-making that moonshine, drinkin' his fill
A Carolina Moonshiner
If the law don't get him, then the moonshine will

Lyrics by Dolly Parton.
Recorded by Porter Wagoner.

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