Making peppervine wine, picking berries along the trail.

Making peppervine wine, picking berries along the trail.

I've been picking all day. Can't fill another pail!

Well, I've never been a banker, never been a businessman.

No, I've never been a banker, never been a businessman.

But my baby needs bread, so I've got to have a plan.

Making peppervine wine, mashing berries black as ink.

Making peppervine wine, mashing berries black as ink.

Let it sit all month. Don't mind the musty stink.

If you walk along the water with a bottle in your hand,

If you walk along the water with a bottle in your hand,

Then you might fall in, get a mouthful of river sand!

That peppervine wine looks mighty, mighty fine.

Yeah, peppervine wine looks mighty, mighty fine.

But it smells so bad. Better stick to muscadine!