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 Lord, 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 ol' Satan, he lives in my whisky machine And in my time of dying, I know where I'm bound So 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