Digital Tradition Mirror

Tear My Stillhouse Down

Tear My Stillhouse Down
(Gillian Welch)

D G
Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb
D A
No gold plated sign in a marble pillared room
D
There's just one thing I want
G
When they lay me in the ground
D A D
When I die, tear my stillhouse down.

(Chorus)
G
Lord, tear my stillhouse down, let it go to rust
D
Don't leave no trace of the hidin' place

Where I made that evil stuff
G
For all my time and money, no profit did I see
D A D
That old copper kettle was the death of me.

When I was a child, way back in the hills
I laughed at the men who tended those stills
But that old mountain shine it caught me somehow
When I die, tear my stillhouse down.

Go tell all your children, that hell ain't no dream
Old Satan, he lives in my whiskey machine
Oh, in my time of dyin', I know where I'm bound
When I die, tear my stillhouse down.

Here's one by Gillian Welch, recorded on her first? album (can't
remember the name) and also done by Nashville Bluegrass Band BJS
BJS
OCT98

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!

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