The Devil & Jack McCarthy chords by B. Dolan

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Verse 1
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The Devil Walked
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Lime
The devil walked into lime balls
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on a rainy Nashville night
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While the lost souls sat and sipped their
soup in the yellow neon light
And the devil,
he looks around the room
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and gets down on his knee
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Dm 
Is there one among you, scum,
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who'll roll the dice with me?
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Red, he just drum     s his guitar,
pretending not to hear
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An  d Eddie, he just looks away,
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takes another sip of beer
Vince, he says, not me, I'll pass,
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I've had my share of hell
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and kept scribbling on a napkin
some song he was sure would sell.
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Ronnie just kept whispering low
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to the snuff queen at his sleeve
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and somebody coughed
and the devil scoffed
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and turned on his heel to leave.
Dm 
Hold on, says a voice
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from the back of the room,
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before you walk out that door,
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if you're looking for some action, friend,
I've rolled some dice before.
And there stood Billy Markham,
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who'd been on the scene for years,
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singing all them raunchy songs
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nobody wanted to hear.
He had been cut and bled a
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thousand  times,
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and his eyes were wise and sad,
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and all his songs were the songs of the street,
and all his luck was bad.
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I know you, says Billy Markham,
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from many a dark and funky place.
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You always spoke in a different voice,
and wore a different face.
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And me, I've gambled here
on Music Row
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with hustlers an  d with whores,
And hell, I ain't afraid to
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roll them devilish dice of yours.
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Well then get down, says the devil,
just as if you was gonna pray.
And pick up these dice in your
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luckless hand,
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and I'll tell you how to play.
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You get one roll, and you bet your soul,
and if you roll thirteen, you win.
And all the joys of flesh and gold
are yours to touch and spend
But if that thirteen don't come up,
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then kiss your ass goodbye
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And will your useless bones to God,
cause your goddamn soul is mine
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Billy Markham takes the dice,
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Dm 
and the dice feel heavy as stones
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They should, the devil says,
they're carved from Jesus' bones.
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And Billy Markham turns the dice,
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and the dice they have no spots.
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I'm sorry, says the devil,
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they're the only dice I got.
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Well, shit, says Billy Markham.
Now, I really don't mean to bitch,
but I never thought that
I'd stake my role
in a sucker's game like this.
Then walk off, says the devil,
nobody's tied you down.
Walk off where, says Billy,
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it's the only game in town.
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But I just want to say before I make my play,
if I should chance to lose,
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I will this guitar to some would
-be star
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who would play some hon
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est blues.
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Who ain't afraid to sing the words
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like damn or shit or fuck,
and who ain't afraid to
put his ass on stage
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and work to make a buck.
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But if he plays this guitar safe
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and sings some sugary lies,
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then I'll haunt him till we meet in hell.
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Now gim      me them fuckin'
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dice.
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