Copper Kettle

Bob Dylan

RockMedium for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              
  
verse 1: 
 
C         G      C          
Get you a copper kettle,    
 
C         G      C 
Get you a copper coil, 
E                     Am 
Fill it with new-made corn mash  
    Dm                G 
And never more you'll toil. 
 
Chorus: 
       Am               Em 
As you lay there by the juniper 
Am        C       E 
while the moon is bright, 
Am                G 
Watch them jugs a-filling 
Am     Em       Am 
In the pale moonlight. 
 
verse 2: 
 
C           G         C 
Build you a fire with hickory,  
C        G       C 
Hickory, ash and oak, 
E                     Am 
Don't use no green or rotten wood;  
        Dm             G 
They'll get you by the smoke. 
 
Chorus: 
       Am               Em 
As you lay there by the juniper 
Am        C       E 
while the moon is bright, 
Am                G 
Watch them jugs a-filling 
Am     Em       Am 
In the pale moonlight. 
 
verse 3: 
C         G       C 
My daddy, he made whiskey;  
C        G             C 
My grand-daddy, he did too. 
E                Am 
We ain't paid no whiskey tax  
      Dm               G 
Since seventeen ninety-two. 
 
Chorus: 
       Am               Em 
As you lay there by the juniper 
Am        C       E 
while the moon is bright, 
Am                G 
Watch them jugs a-filling 
Am     Em       Am 
In the pale moonlight.

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Chord set

C · G · E · Am · Dm · Em

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.