Bob Dylan - Copper Kettle guitar tab

Copper Kettle

Albert Frank Beddoe

Released by Bob Dylan on Self Portrait (1970)

tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

The figure in the first lines is (probably) embellished like:

G Am7

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G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil,

G Am7 G Am7 C /b Am

Fill it with new-made corn mash and never more you'll toil.

C G

You'll just lay there by the juniper

C G

while the moon is bright,

C /b Am

Watch them jugs a-filling

C(maj7) G

In the pale moonlight.

G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7

Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak,

G Am7 G Am7 C

Don't use no green or rotten wood; they'll get you by the smoke.

G C

You'll just lay there by the juniper

G C

while the moon is bright,

G C

Watch them jugs a-filling

G

In the pale moonlight.

G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7

My daddy, he made whiskey; my granddaddy, he did too.

G Am7 G Am7 ^Am C

We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792.

G C

You'll just lay there by the juniper

G C

while the moon is bright,

G C

Watch them jugs a-filling

G

In the pale moonlight.

C G

In the pale moonlight.