Tear My Stillhouse Down

Tear My Stillhouse Down

Tear My Stillhouse Down

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Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb No gold plated sign In a marble pillared room The one thing that I want when they lay me in the ground When I die tear my still house down
Oh tear my still house down let it go to rust Don't leave no trace of the hiding place Where I made that evil stuff For all my time and money no profit did I see 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 still house down Oh tell all your children that hell ain't no dream 'Cause Satan he lives In my whiskey machine And in my time of dying I know where I'm bound When I die tear my still house down

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About This Song

Tear My Stillhouse Down is a traditional Appalachian number that's been covered by numerous bluegrass artists over the years. The song tells the story of a moonshiner's demise, a common theme in old-time and bluegrass music that reflects the region's colorful history with backwoods distilling.

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