The Red Flannel Rag

The birds in the sky

Get so drunk they can't fly

Off that good old mountain dew.

(Chorus)

Oh, they call it that good ole mountain dew

And them that refuse it are very few.

I'll shut my mug

If you'll fill up my jug,

With that good ole mountain dew.

My auntie June had some high class perfume,

Well, it gave out a powerful pew.

Was she surprised

When they had it analyzed

It was that good ole mountain dew.

(Repeat chorus)

My second cousin Jeb had a fool for a wife

But she made a fine squirrel stew.

When we ate at her house

We got as drunk as a louse

For she seasoned with that ole mountain dew.

(Repeat chorus) (7)

Moonshine did not catch on in Hopkins Gap until after the passage of the

National Prohibition Act in 1919. Better known as The Volstead Act, this legislation was

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