Copper Kettle

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Copper Kettle – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Albert Frank Beddoe
From: "Self Portrait" (1970)
Version without overdubs now on:
“The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)” (2013)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
C/B x-2-2-0-1-0
G/B x-2-0-0-0-x
C/G 3-x-2-0-1-0
Em/A x-0-2-0-0-0
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[Verse 1]
G Am G Am
Get you a copper kettle
G Am G Am
Get you a copper coil
G Am G Am
Fill it with new-made corn mash
C C/B Am
And never more you'll toil
[Chorus]
G/B C G
You just lay there by the juniper
C G
While the moon is bright
C C/B Am
Watch them jugs a-filling
C C/BG C/GG G
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In the pale moonlight
[Verse 2]
G Am G Am
Build you a fire with hickory
G Am G Am
Hickory, ash and oak
G Am G Am
Don't use no green or rotten wood
C C
They'll get you by the smoke
[Chorus]
G C
We just lay there by the juniper
G C
While the moon is bright
G C/G
Watch them jugs a-filling
C/G G G C/G
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In the pale moonlight
[Verse 3]
G Am G Am
My daddy-y, he made whiskey
G Am G Am
My grand-daddy, he did too
G C/G G C/G
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Am Em/A Am
Since seventeen ninety-two
[Chorus]
G C
We just lay there by the juniper
G C
While the moon is bright
G C/G
Watch them jugs a-filling
C/G G
In the pale moonlight
C/G G
[ ]
In the pale moonlight
[Coda]
G C/GG G C/GG
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G C/GG G C/GG
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G C/GG G C/GG
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G C/GG G C/GG G
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(break)

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          Copper Kettle – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Albert Frank Beddoe
From: "Self Portrait" (1970)
Version without overdubs now on:
   “The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)” (2013)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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[Verse 1]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
[Chorus]
[Coda]
| G     C/G G | G     C/G G |
| G     C/G G | G     C/G G |
| G     C/G G | G     C/G G |

Copper Kettle Chords by Bob Dylan

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