Intro: Em Verse 1: Dm My Daddy played poker in the woods they say, F back in his younger days G Prohibition was the talk, Dm but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed Verse 2: Dm F Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners G They came from the twenty-niners Dm It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face Verse 3: Dm Back in the thirties when the dust bowl dried F And the woods in Alabama didn't see no light G My Daddy played poker by a hard wood fire Dm Squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire Dm Scrap like a wildcat fights till the end F Trap a wildcat and take his skin G Deal from the bottom , put the ace in the hole Dm One hand on the jug but you never do know Chorus: C Son come running G You better come quick G A Bb F This rotgut moonshine is making me sick C G Your Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away G A Bb Down so far even the Devil won't stay Verse 4: Dm F Where I call to the Lord with all my soul G Dm I can hear him rattling the chains on the door G F He couldn't get in I could see he tried Dm Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light Verse 5: C Daddy tell me another story G Tell me about the lows and the highs C G A Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth Bb or a lie F C Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad G A With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in Bb their hand Chorus: C Son come running G You better come quick G A Bb F This rotgut moonshine is making me sick C G Your Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away G A Bb Down so far even the Devil won't stay
