Jim Jackson — Bootlegging Blues lyrics

Lyrics

This corn liquor: there’s plenty more to be made
Just get a job at one of these stills: and you surely
will be paid
I tell you it’s a mighty risk to run: and a mighty
chance to take
To spend your money: for the corn that the bootlegger
makes
When the bootlegger goes to his still: get ready to make
his stuff
He got his concentrated lye: cocaine and his snuff
I went home the other night: I swore I wouldn’t drink no more
Until saloons come back with bottle and *bondy*: in the
days of long ago
But I see that will never be: so I just got drunk again
I haven’t nothing so long as corn liquor lasts: and I got no money to spend