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