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A copper kettle type of moonshine still "Copper Kettle" (also known as "Get you a Copper Kettle", "In the pale moonlight") is a song composed by Albert Frank Beddoe and made popular by Joan Baez.
A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. [1] A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus , but on a much larger scale.
In the Sanford episode "In the Still of the Night", Calvin (Dennis Burkley) sets up a still in Fred Sanford's kitchen. A fourth-season episode of Emergency! included a major plot thread about a minor epidemic of psychotic behavior in alcoholics, which was ultimately traced to lead poisoning from a moonshine still. By the end of the episode ...
Contamination is still possible by unscrupulous distillers using cheap methanol to increase the apparent strength of the product. Moonshine can be made both more palatable and perhaps less dangerous by discarding the "foreshot" – the first 50–150 millilitres (1.8–5.3 imp fl oz; 1.7–5.1 US fl oz) of alcohol that drip from the condenser ...
I'll go to some hollow and I'll set up my still And I'll make you a gallon for a ten shilling bill (Chorus) I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home And if you don't like me You can leave me alone I'll eat when I'm hungry And I'll drink when I'm dry And if moonshine don't kill me I'll live till I die I'll go to some hollow in this ...
The song's second verse recalls a story about two "strangers" (apparently revenue agents) climbing Rocky Top "looking for a moonshine still," but never returning (conflict between moonshiners and "revenuers" is a common theme in Appalachian culture). [14]
Gonna tear your still house down [Chorus] Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow Gonna lay darlin cory down Oh the first time I saw darlin cory She was standin in the door She had her shoes and her stockings in her hand And her little bare feet on the floor
There's a busy little still Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight Your lovin' paw Isn't quite within the law So he's hidin' there behind the hill. Annie and Trio: Bye bye baby Stop your yawnin' Don't cry baby Day will be dawning. Trio: And when it does From the mountain where he wuz He'll be coming with jug of moonshine. Annie: So count ...