Bootlegging Blues-Jim Jackson

[ti:Bootlegging Blues] [ar:Jim Jackson] [al:The Best Of 1920s Blues Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bootlegging Blues - Jim Jackson [00:00.64]Since [00:02.15]Hard liquor came in style [00:02.61] [00:04.93]Theres plenty money to be made [00:07.60] [00:09.10]Just get a job at one of these fields [00:11.54]And you surely will be paid [00:14.48] [00:15.88]I tell you it's a mighty [00:17.26] [00:18.69]Risk to run [00:19.89] [00:20.75]And a mighty chance to take [00:23.41] [00:24.82]To spend your money for the corn that the bootlegger make [00:30.17] [00:31.82]The bootlegging man got his bottle in his hand [00:35.94] [00:36.74]And all he needs is a little more speed [00:40.74]So he can outrun the revenue man [00:44.53] [00:47.66]When the bootlegger goes [00:49.02] [00:49.67]To his still [00:50.62] [00:52.42]Get ready to make his stuff [00:55.02] [00:56.37]He got his concentrated lye [00:58.34] [00:59.19]Cocaine and his snuff [01:01.82] [01:03.62]He'll fix you up a drink just won't quit [01:05.96] [01:06.48]It'll make you fight a circle saw [01:08.80] [01:09.40]Make you slap the lady down [01:11.30]And make you pick a fight with your pa [01:14.01] [01:18.16]The bootlegging man got his bottle in his hand [01:22.40]And all he needs is a little more speed [01:26.82]So he can outrun the revenue man [01:30.53] [01:33.78]I went home the other night [01:36.46] [01:37.92]I swore I wouldn't drink no more [01:40.74] [01:42.34]Until saloons come back with bottle and bondy [01:45.49]And the days of long ago [01:46.97] [01:48.95]But I see that will never be [01:51.84] [01:53.21]So I just got drunk again [01:56.13] [01:57.83]I haven't nothing so long as corn liquor lasts [02:01.07]And I got no money to spend [02:03.06] [02:07.48]The bootlegging man got his bottle in his hand [02:11.07] [02:11.96]And all he needs is a little more speed [02:16.02]So he can outrun the revenue man [02:19.19] [02:40.07]The bootlegging man got his bottle in his hand [02:43.67] [02:44.23]And all he needs is a little more speed [02:48.70]So he can outrun the revenue man