{"id":9722,"date":"2024-04-01T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:15:08","slug":"copper-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9722","title":{"rendered":"Copper Kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Copper_Kettle.jpeg\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Copper_Kettle.mp3\"><br \/>\nCopper Kettle &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>A. F. Beddoe claims to have written this song in 1953 as part of the folk opera &#8220;Go Lightly, Stranger.&#8221; However Pete Seeger says he heard the song in 1946, sung by a tall stranger named Frank. Joan Baez learned the song from Bob Gibson and recorded it for her 1962 Vanguard album &#8220;Joan Baez In Concert, Part 1.&#8221; However in this article from FolkWorks.org Ross Altman, PhD did some detective work and concluded that A. F. Beddoe did write the song after all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little bootlegger story:<br \/>\nA government official came to the home of a known bootlegger to destroy his still. The son came to the door. The &#8220;revenuer&#8221; asked to see the boy&#8217;s father. &#8220;He&#8217;s working&#8221; said the son. The agent knew what that meant. He offered the boy ten dollars to take him to the father. Boy said &#8220;Ok, give me the money now.&#8221; Agent said he&#8217;d give it when they got back. Kid said &#8220;Mister, you ain&#8217;t coming back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\nCapo on 1st fret in D position:<br \/>\n[D] Get you a [A] copper [D] kettle<br \/>\n[D] Get you a [A] copper [D] coil<br \/>\n[Bm] Fill it with new made corn mash<br \/>\n[Em] And never more you&#8217;ll [A] toil<\/p>\n<p>[G] You&#8217;ll just lay there by the [Bm] juniper<br \/>\n[G] While the moon shines [Bm] bright<br \/>\n[G] Watch them jugs [Bm] a-filling<br \/>\nIn the [A] pale [Bm] moonlight<\/p>\n<p>Build you a fire with hickory<br \/>\nHickory, ash, and oak<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t use no green or rotten wood<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll get you by the smoke<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll just lay there by the juniper<br \/>\nWhile the moon shines bright<br \/>\nWatch them jugs a-filling<br \/>\nIn the pale moonlight<\/p>\n<p>My daddy, he made whiskey<br \/>\nMy granddaddy, he did too<br \/>\nWe ain&#8217;t paid no whiskey tax<br \/>\nSince 1792<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll just lay there by the juniper<br \/>\nWhile the moon shines bright<br \/>\nWatch them jugs a-filling<br \/>\nIn the pale moonlight\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Copper Kettle &#8211; Click To Play A. F. Beddoe claims to have written this song in 1953 as part of the folk opera &#8220;Go Lightly, Stranger.&#8221; However Pete Seeger says he heard the song in 1946, sung by a tall stranger named Frank. Joan Baez learned the song from Bob Gibson and recorded it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copper Kettle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9731,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}