Songs from the Doghouse: Moonshine Still (words and music by Chris Stanley)

D G D A

The Chevy belonged to the warden, the whisky belonged to my wife

D G D A D

I’s a prison guard at Missouri State, now I’m heading south on I3 - 5

Prison could be pretty ugly and it’s hard not to take your work home

From James Earl Ray to Pretty Boy Floyd

I’d wonder how they felt about the things that they done

A G D

Then I was made redundant when they closed up in the fall

Now I’m heading south of nowhere

G A

Gonna be an Oklahoma redneck hillbilly boy

(Chorus – chords as verse)

Where the days don’t have to pass quickly and the road can go where it will

And all of the worry and all of the hurt, I’ll just pour it all into a moonshine still

Now I never stole so much as a kiss and nobody stole from me

But when they took my job and took away The Walls, I started to see things differently

So I borrowed from the warden, found the whisky in the porch

Now I’m heading south of nowhere, gonna be an Oklahoma redneck hillbilly boy

(Chorus)

A D

I never was a criminal but all I know is crime

A D

Behind those bars and granite walls we all were doing time

A D

Now I’m not saying right is wrong but there’s other ways that’s all

A G

My job was my life sentence, now I’m free and easy, southward bound

D Em A

Avoid the cities, avoid the towns and embrace the country like a redneck, hillbilly boy

(Chorus)

Now I sit by the lake with a jug full of shine and a cabin I built in the woods

And part of me knows I’ll never go back

D A Bm G A D

And part of me thinks that I should, yes part of me thinks that I should

Songs from the Doghouse