Moonshiner

A haunting bluegrass ballad, a group is visited.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Roscoe
• Holcomb
• moonshine
• western

[kattoy06]

Anyone know the lyrics, or know where to find them online?

[lamancuso12]

Type in Moonshiner Lyrics into google, you get a lot. The bob dylan version is word for word I believe. I'd post them on here but there's a word count limit.

[lamancuso12]

Where there's smoke...

[lamancuso12]

Thank you for your responses

[chriscasbarro]

I like the music, of course, but I don't think Mr. Holcomb would have liked the connotation of the video. People made moonshine in these mountains to make a better life for their families and for themselves . . . they didn't do it to get laid. This video sheds a negative light on Appalachian folk-culture as I live it and know it. However, an intelligent person would know that the music means so much more than this silly video.

[lamancuso12]

I appreciate your experience with moonshining , but take into account the lyrics. Roscoe sings about the loneliness of his trade and about alcoholism. He romanticizes it: "God bless them all them pretty women, I wish they all were mine/ their breath smells so sweetly like that good old moonshine". Roscoe isn't singing about making a living or making a better life. He's singing a life dependent on alcohol, making it and consuming it.

And that is what the video makes relevant.

[soapisgoodfood]

That's Roscoe Holcomb

[TheMountainGuy101]

I agree----Unfortunately for us folks in the mountains, Mr. Zimmerman did not give us much credit for a number of traditional songs he covered.

[jdylan1984]

I agree my family is from the smokey mtns and this video seems a little offensive to me.Of course,as an intelligent individual you have to consider that for people who arent like us and didnt grow up like us and dont live a life like ours it is more of a romantic thought.Roscoe was singing more about the perspective of an outsider than himself.Anyone who knows,knows that he was happily married and didnt make moonshine.He was a miner and later a musician.Video stupid,song awesome!

[hajiketobu]

Beautifully filmed!

[dropthatwand]

Love this song. Bob Dylan's version is also very beautiful.

[Onbluewater]

Beautiful

[jetlamit]

Hi from france .... (bad english sorry)

I'am not american and i never dig some coal as Roscoe Holcomb ... but ...

Les chansons de R.Holcomb sont incroyables ... elle s'ecoutent avec l'ame et le coeur ... Great Great Great ^^

[userjdr]

@kattoy06 so sweetly like good ole moonshine sorry for all the spelling erros

[userjdr]

@kattoy06 i have been a moon shiner ever since that i been born i drunk up all of my money and stilled up all of my corn ill go up some dark hallow and put up my moonshine still it will make you 1 gallon for a five dollar bill ill go up some dark hallow and get you some boose if the revenews dont get me no money then i loose come on all you moon shiners stand all in a row your looks so sad and lonsome your lonsome yes i know god bless them prity women i wish they all were mine there breath smell

[userjdr]

@lamancuso12 the dylan version has a few diffrent lyics but just about the same

[LynnLillie]

Hey Buck!  Yes, I like this video.

But, you will never be this real.

Lillie