My daddy started brewing whiskey back in ’71

Of all of the West Virginia ‘shiners, he was the one and only one,

Who had a special blend of moonshine

Man, it really hit the spot – I’m gonna tell you what we got

We called it Champagne Moonshine, it was cool boys, it was hot

See, that spring these outta state boys they come a-tearing down our road

Stopped ‘n pulled out these big old bags they’s in a hurry to unload

They threw this bushy, brushy, weedy stuff In our cornfield, and they lit on out again

I wonder where they’d been?

By the time the law come poking round, the spring rains had washed it in

Now what they threw out weren’t tomaters

It weren’t cabbage or rutabagers – oh no! I don’t think so

It weren’t lettuce or petunias or any other kinda legume

You’d ever know, oh – boe-da-lee-doe

Next fall come Fridays and Saturdays, Folks lined up ‘n down our road

Waiting for a bottle of our Champagne Moonshine gold

They would say, Jeb what is your secret, boy, you gotta a recipe that I could steal?

Can we make us a deal?

Dad’d say there ain’t no secret receipe, boys, the secret grows in that cornfield

The more hooch we brewed, the more hooch we sold, we couldn’t keep it on the shelf,

And Daddy wouldn’t tell his secret, I thought I’d find out for myself

I snuck out to his shed one night and you will not believe what I seen

Gonna tell you what I mean

That Corn he was mashing was half yeller - But I swear it was half green

Now what growed in that corn weren’t okrey

It weren’t parsley, sage, or poke weed – oh me, that could not be.

But some folks claimed it was medicinal,

And it could turn a mean man blissful,

And some claimed it could help the blind to see – hee hee!

Well daddy’s passed away and all of those fields are all plowed down

But our hooch is still a legend in many a West Virginia town

Now some folks claim the devil took dad, but not me, I know that Devil had to wait

He was a little too late

Cause we buried our last case of shine with dad to pay his way through the Pearly Gates

We called it Champagne Moonshine,

We called it Champagne Moonshine,

We called it Champagne Moonshine

Preacher Jones called it deeeeeeee-vine