Intro: E5 Verse 1: D5 My Daddy played poker in the woods they say, F5 back in his younger days G5 Prohibition was the talk, D5 but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed Verse 2: D5 F5 Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners G5 They came from the twenty-niners D5 It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face Verse 3: D5 Back in the thirties when the dust bowl dried F5 And the woods in Alabama didn't see no light G5 My Daddy played poker by a hard wood fire D5 Squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire D5 Scrap like a wildcat fights till the end F5 Trap a wildcat and take his skin G5 Deal from the bottom , put the ace in the hole D5 One hand on the jug but you never do know Chorus: C5 Son come running G5 You better come quick G5 A5 Bb5 F5 This rotgut moonshine is making me sick C5 G5 Your Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away G5 A5 Bb5 Down so far even the Devil won't stay Verse 4: D5 F5 Where I call to the Lord with all my soul G5 D5 I can hear him rattling the chains on the door G5 F5 He couldn't get in I could see he tried D5 Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light Verse 5: C5 Daddy tell me another story G5 Tell me about the lows and the highs C5 G5 A5 Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth Bb5 or a lie F5 C5 Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad G5 A5 With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in Bb5 their hand Chorus: C5 Son come running G5 You better come quick G5 A5 Bb5 F5 This rotgut moonshine is making me sick C5 G5 Your Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away G5 A5 Bb5 Down so far even the Devil won't stay