Where the Devil Don't Stay — Drive-By Truckers
Chords and lyrics for Where the Devil Don't Stay by Drive-By Truckers (key of A#).
Verse 1
Hey guys, Where The Devil Don't Stay, wicked song, Here you go;
Barre Chords-
Intro: Em
Verse 1
My [Dm]Daddy played poker in the woods they say,
[F]back in his younger days
[G]Prohibition was the talk,
[Dm]but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed
Verse 2
[Dm]Jugs and jars from shiners, these old [F]boys here, they ain't miners
They [G]came from the twenty-niners
It didn't take a [Dm]hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face
Verse 3
[Dm]Back in the thirties when the dust bowl dried
And the [F]woods in Alabama didn't see no light
My Daddy [G]played poker by a hard wood fire
[Dm]Squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire
[Dm]Scrap like a wildcat fights till the end
[F]Trap a wildcat and take his skin
[G]Deal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole
[Dm]One hand on the jug but you never do know
Chorus
[C]Son come running
[G]You better come quick
[G]This [A]rotgut [Bb]moonshine is making me [F]sick
Your[C] Mama called the law and they're gonna [G]take me away
[G]Down so [A]far even the [Bb]Devil won't stay
Verse 4
[Dm]Where I call to the Lord with all my [F]soul
[G]I can hear him rattling the chains on the [Dm]door
[G]He couldn't get in I could see he [F]tried
[Dm]Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light
Verse 5
[C]Daddy tell me another story
[G]Tell me about the lows and the highs
[C]Tell me how to tell the [G]difference between [A]what they tell me is the truth
[Bb]or a lie
[F]Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go [C]mad
[G]With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same [A]jug in
[Bb]their hand
Chorus
[C]Son come running
[G]You better come quick
[G]This [A]rotgut [Bb]moonshine is making me [F]sick
Your[C] Mama called the law and they're gonna [G]take me away
[G]Down so [A]far even the [Bb]Devil won't stay
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