The G men, T men, revenuers too / Searchin' for the place where he made his brew / They were lookin', tryin' to book him / But my pappy kept a-cookin' / Whshhhoooh. Well, a city slicker came and he said "I'm tough, I think I wanna taste that powerful stuff" / He took one s-slug and he drank it right down / And I heard him a-moanin' as he hit the ground / Mighty, mighty pleasin', your pappy's corn squeezin' / Whshhhoooh. Well, I asked my old pappy why he called his brew / White lightnin' 'stead of mountain dew / I took a little sip and right away I knew / As my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue / Lightnin' started flashin', thunder started clashin' / Whshhhoooh.
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Well, the G men, T men, revenuers too / Searchin' for the place where he made his brew / They were lookin', tryin' to book him / But my pappy kept a-cookin' / Whshhhoooh. Well, in North Carolina, way back in the hills / Me and my old pappy, and he had him a still / We brewed white lightnin' 'til the sun went down / And then he'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around / Mighty, mighty pleasin', pappy's corn squeezin' / Whshhhoooh. This story was originally written by Gayle Thompson, and revised by Annie Zaleski.
Sammy Kershaw also included the tune on his Jones tribute album, Do You Know Me - A Tribute to George Jones, which was released in 2014. Several artists have covered "White Lightning," including Hank Williams Jr., for his 1979 album Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound, and punk band the Fall, for their 1991 album Shift-Work. "White Lightning" stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. Years later he said he could still remember the pain from playing that kickoff over and over the stiff, woven-wire strings of an upright bass."īy the time "White Lightning" was recorded, Jones had released four other studio albums and landed in the Top 10 eight times.
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"Killen said he wore the skin off his fingers playing that same opening, and had to wear Band-Aids to cover raw blisters. "I was drinking heavily throughout the session, and Killen later said we did 83 takes before we got one we could use," Jones wrote. As Jones recalls in his 1997 memoir, I Lived to Tell It All, it took more than 80 takes to record "White Lightning" because he had arrived at the session highly inebriated. Buddy Killen produced the recording session for "White Lightning," which took place at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut Studio, and he also played upright bass on the song. White Lightning is Mary Garnett Edwards debut solo release shed previously released First Stone with her husband, the late, musician and composer of the.
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