Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner

      
 
 Traditional, arranged by Farrar/Tweedy (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Feedhorn Songs
 ) 
  
 
 This is my favorite song by one of my favorite bands. There are two
 guitars in the song and two ways to play it:
 
 Play a harmonica in the key of "C" and strum along with the chords
 throwing in plenty of suspended chords:
 
 Am/G F/G C/G G/B G/C G/D 
    

 |--3------3------3----------------------3------3-------3----3--------|
 |--1------1------1----------------------1------0-----0-1--1/3--------|
 |--2------2------0----p--0---p--0---p---0------0-------0----0--------|
 |--2------3------2---0-2----0-2----0-2--2------0-------0----0--------|
 |--0------X------3----------------------3------2-------2----2--------|
 |--0------X------X----------------------X------3-------3----3--------|
 

 
   Am/G F/G  C/G   
 I am a  moonshiner
                    G/B  G/C G/D 
 For seventeen long years
       Am/G     F/G C/G  
 And I spent all my money
                G/B G/C G/D 
 On whiskey and beer
 
 F G/B C/G F 
    

 |--1----3-------------------------3---------1--1--0------------------|
 |--1----0---0--1--3--5--3--1--0---1----p----1--------3--1--3--1--0---|
 |--2----0-------------------------0---0-2---2------------------------|
 |--3----0-------------------------2---------3------------------------|
 |--3----2-------------------------3---------3------------------------|
 |--1----3-------------------------X---------1------------------------|
 

 
       F          G/B   
 And I go to some hollow
     C/G       F    
 And set up my still
 
 If whiskey don't kill me
 Lord, I don't know what will
 
 And I go to some barroom
 To drink with my friends
 Where the women they can't follow
 To see what I spend
 God bless them, pretty women
 I wish they was mine
 With breath as sweet as
 The dew on the vine
 
 Let me eat when I'm hungry
 Let me drink when I'm dry
 Two dollars when I'm hard up
 Religion when I die
 The whole world is a bottle
 And life is but a dram
 When the bottle gets empty
 Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn
 
 
 Here's the version I like to play:
 
 (capo 5th fret)
 
 Em/D C/D G/D D 
     

 A---X-----X-----X---------X-----2---------2---------2-------------|
 E---3-----3-----3----p----3-----3----p----3----p----3-------------|
 C---0-----0-----0---0-2---0-----2---0-2---2---0-2---2-------------|
 G---2-----2-----0---------0-----0---------0---------0-------------|
 D---2-----3-----2---------2-----0---------0---------0-------------|
 A---0-----0-----3---------3-----X---------X---------X-------------|
 

 
   Em/D C/D  G/D   
 I am a  moonshiner
                    D    
 For seventeen long years
       Em/D     C/D G/D  
 And I spent all my money
                D   
 On whiskey and beer
 
       C          D     
 And I go to some hollow
     G         C    
 And set up my still
 If whiskey don't kill me
 Lord, I don't know what will
 
 
 There's a incredible live version of "Moonshiner" by the Tupes on
 "Live From The Mountain Stage Vol. 7" on Blue Plate Records.
 
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