• Song:

    Where The Devil Dont Stay

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

Hey guys, Where The Devil Don't Stay, wicked song, Here you go;

Barre Chords-

Intro: Em

Verse 1: 

   Dm (xx0231@1)                                        
My Daddy played poker in the woods they say, 
Fback (133211@1)in his younger days
G (320003@1)                                                        
Prohibition was the talk, 
Dmbut (xx0231@1)the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed

Verse 2:

Dm (xx0231@1)                                   FJugs (133211@1)and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners
     GThey (320003@1)came from the twenty-niners
                 DmIt (xx0231@1)didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face


Verse 3:
DmBack (xx0231@1)in the thirties when the dust bowl dried
        FAnd (133211@1)the woods in Alabama didn't see no light
         GMy (320003@1)Daddy played poker by a hard wood fire
DmSqueezing (xx0231@1)all his luck from a hot copper wire
DmScrap (xx0231@1)like a wildcat fights till the end
FTrap (133211@1)a wildcat and take his skin
GDeal (320003@1)from the bottom, put the ace in the hole
DmOne (xx0231@1)hand on the jug but you never do know


Chorus:
CSon (x32010@1)come running
GYou (320003@1)better come quick
G (320003@1)  A (x02220@1)     Bb (x1333x@1)                  FThis (133211@1)rotgut moonshine is making me sick
    C (x32010@1)                                    GYour (320003@1)Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
G (320003@1)      A (x02220@1)          Bb (x1333x@1)                 
Down so far even the Devil won't stay

Verse 4: 
Dm (xx0231@1)                                  FWhere (133211@1)I call to the Lord with all my soul
G (320003@1)                                        DmI (xx0231@1)can hear him rattling the chains on the door
G (320003@1)                                 FHe (133211@1)couldn't get in I could see he tried
DmThrough (xx0231@1)the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light

Verse 5:

C (x32010@1)                            
Daddy tell me another story
GTell (320003@1)me about the lows and the highs
C (x32010@1)                        G (320003@1)              ATell (x02220@1)me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth 
Bbor (x1333x@1)a lie
F (133211@1)                                                               CTell (x32010@1)me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad
G (320003@1)                                                               AWith (x02220@1)the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in 
Bbtheir (x1333x@1)hand

Chorus:
CSon (x32010@1)come running
GYou (320003@1)better come quick
G (320003@1)  A (x02220@1)     Bb (x1333x@1)                  FThis (133211@1)rotgut moonshine is making me sick
    C (x32010@1)                                    GYour (320003@1)Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
G (320003@1)      A (x02220@1)          Bb (x1333x@1)                 
Down so far even the Devil won't stay


Show more