Moonshiner

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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:35:34 -0500

From: Jim <tardis@tetranet.net>

Moonshiner

by Uncle Tupelo

Transcribed by John Erlinger (tardis@tetranet.net)

Traditional, arranged by Farrar/Tweedy (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Feedhorn Songs

)

>From the Rockville Records album "March 16-20 1992" (ROCK6090-2)

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.

More Uncle Tupelo stuff including transcriptions:

http://www.webcom.com/~gumbo/uncle-tupelo.html