Tying Knots In The Devil's Tail chords by
Colter Wall
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
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Well, it was way high up in the Sierry Petes
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Where the yellow pines grow tall
Rusty Diggs and Sandy Sam
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Had a round-up camp last fall
They had their ponies and their running irons
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And maybe a dog or two
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And they 'lowed they'd brand
every lop-eared calf
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That came within their view
Verse 2
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Well many a lop-eared dogie
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If he didn't hush up by day
Had his long ears whittled
and his old hide scorched
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In a most artistic way
Then says Rusty Diggs to Sandy Sam
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As he throwed his seago down
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"I'm tired of cowbiography
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"And I figures I'll go to town"
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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They starts her in at the Kentucky Bar
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At the head of the Whisky Row
And they ends her up at the Depot House
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And forty drinks below
Then he winds her up
and they turns her 'round
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And they goes her the other way
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Tell you the Lord-forsaken truth
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Them boys got drunk that day
Verse 4
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Well, they was a-headin' back to camp
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And a-packin' a mighty good load
Who should they meet but the Devil himself
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Come prancin' down the road?
And the Devil he said, "You cowboy skunks
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"You better go hunt your hole
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"'Cause I've come up from the Hell's rim rock
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"To gather in your souls"
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Says Rusty Jiggs to the Devil
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"Though I know we're tight
"No devil ever took no cowpunch
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"Without one kind of a fight"
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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So Rusty Jiggs punched a hole in his rope
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He swang it straight and true
He lassoed it onto the devil's horns
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And he's takin' his dallies true
Now Sandy Sam was a reata man
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With his gut line coiled up neat
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So he shakes her out out
and he builds him a loop
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And he lassoed the Devil's hind feet
Verse 6
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They stretched him out, they tailed him down
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While the irons was a-gettin' hot
They cropped and swallow-forked his ears
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And they branded him up a lot
Well they pruned him up with a dehorning saw
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Tied knots in his tail for a joke
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Then they rode off and left him there
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Necked up to a black-jack oak
Outro 1
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So if you're ever up in the Sierry Petes
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And you hear one hell of a wail
Know it's that Devil a-bellowin' 'round
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About them knots in his tail
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You'll know it's that Devil a-bellowin' around
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About them knots in his tail
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