following up on a conversation from last night regarding Mountain Dew - Wikipedia answers all.
The term "mountain dew" is an old southern/appalachian phrase for moonshine liquor, and the soda was initially marketed as "zero proof moonshine" in 1948 and had pictures of hillbillies on the bottle until 1973.
That page also has the lyrics to various version of the mountain dew song I was talking about...I'll play you the CD I have with Doc Watson playing and singing with two of his buddies...
yann
posted over 4 years ago