To Beat the Devil chords by
Waylon Jennings

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Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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It was winter time in Nashville

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down on Music City Row

I was lookin' for a place to get my

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self out of the cold

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To warm the frozen feelin'

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that was eatin' at my soul

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And keep the chilly winds

off my guitar

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Verse 2

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My thirsty wanted whiskey and

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my hunger needed beans

But I guess it'd been a month of payday

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since I heard that eagle scream

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So with a stomach full of empty

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and a pocket full of dreams

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I left my pride and stepped

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inside a bar

Verse 3

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Actually I guess you'd call it

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a tavern

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Cigarette smoke to the ceiling sawdust

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on the floor friendly shadows

I saw that there was just an

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old man sittin' at the bar

In the mirror I could see him checkin'

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me and my guitar

Verse 4

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He said come up here boy show us what you

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are I said I'm dry he bought me a beer

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He nodded at my guitar said it's a tough

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life ain't it I just looked at him

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And he said you ain't makin' any money are you

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I said you been readin' my mail

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He just smiled and said let

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me see that guitar

Verse 5

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I got somethin' you oughta hear

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then he laid it on me

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If you waste your time a talkin' to

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the people who don't listen

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To the things that you are sayin'

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who do you thinks gonna hear

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And if you should die explainin' how

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the thing they complain about

Verse 6

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Or the things they could be changing

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who do you thinks gonna care

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There were lots of other singers in

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the world turned deaf and blind

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Who were crucified for what

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they tried to show

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Now their voices have been scattered

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by the swirling winds of time

Verse 7

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And the truth remains that no

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one wants to know

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Well the old man was a stranger

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but I'd've heard his song before

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Back when failure had me locked out on

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the wrong side of the door

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No one stood behind me but

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my shadow on the floor

Verse 8

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And lonesome was more

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than a state of mind

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You see the devil haunts a hungry man

And if you don't want to join him well

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he's gotta figure out someway to beat him

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And I ain't sayin' I beat the devil

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but I drink his beer for nothin'

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Verse 9

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And then I stole his song

You can still hear me singin' to

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the people who don't listen

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To the things that I am sayin'

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prayin' someone's gonna hear

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And I guess I'll die explaining how the thing

s that they complain about

Verse 10

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Are things they could be changin'

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hopin' someone's gonna care

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I was born to be a singer and I'm

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bound to die the same

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But I've got to feed this hunger in my soul

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If I never have a nickel I won't

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even die in shame

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'Cause I don't believe that no

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one wants to know

Outro 1

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