tear my stillhouse down

Singer:gillian welch

put no stone at my head

no flowers on my tomb

no gold plated sign in a marble pillared room

the one thing i want when they lay me in the ground

when i die

tear my stillhouse down

oh

tear my stillhouse down

let it go to rust

don't leave no trace of the hiding place

where i made that evil stuff

for all my time and money

no profit did i see

that old copper kettle was the death of me

when i was a child way back in the hills

i laughed at the men who tended those stills

but that old mountain shine

it caught me somehow

when i die

tear my stillhouse down

oh

tear my stillhouse down

let it go to rust

don't leave no trace of the hiding place

where i made that evil stuff

for all my time and money

no profit did i see

that old copper kettle was the death of me

oh

tell all your children that hell ain't no dream

'cause satan lives in my whiskey machine

and in my time of dying i know where i'm bound

when i die

tear my stillhouse down

oh

tear my stillhouse down

let it go to rust

don't leave no trace of the hiding place

where i made that evil stuff

for all my time and money

no profit did i see

that old copper kettle was the death of me

that old copper kettle was the death of me

Lyric Context: tear my stillhouse down - gillian welch