• Song:

    Where The Devil Dont Stay

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

 Where The Devil Don't Stay Drive-By Truckers
This is my first post. I have seen this one posted one was right on the money but didn't 
put all of the chord changes in the other one not so much this is a pretty easy song to 
the basic rythmn to just listen to it and enjoy
TUNE DOWN 1 STEP   DGCFAd

Intro: Em

Verse 1:

   EmMy (022000@1)Daddy played poker in the woods they say,
Gback (320003@1)in his younger days
AProhibition (x02220@1)was the talk,
                                 Embut (022000@1)the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed

Verse 2:

Em (022000@1)                                   GJugs (320003@1)and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners
     AThey (x02220@1)came from the twenty-niners
                 EmIt (022000@1)didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face
Em G A Em

Verse 3:
EmBack (022000@1)in the thirties when the dust bowl dried
        GAnd (320003@1)the woods in Alabama didn't see no light
         AMy (x02220@1)Daddy played poker by a hard wood fire
EmSqueezing (022000@1)all his luck from a hot copper wire
EmScrap (022000@1)like a wildcat fights till the end
GTrap (320003@1)a wildcat and take his skin
ADeal (x02220@1)from the bottom, put the ace in the hole
EmOne (022000@1)hand on the jug but you never do know       D A C G


Chorus1
DSon (xx0232@1)come running
AYou (x02220@1)better come quick
C (x32010@1)                      GThis (320003@1)rotgut moonshine is making me sick
D (xx0232@1)                                       AYour (x02220@1)Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
C (x32010@1)                   GDown (320003@1)so far even the Devil won't stay
Verse 4:
EmWhere (022000@1)I call to the Lord with all my soul
GI (320003@1)can hear him rattling the chains on the door
AHe (x02220@1)couldn't get in I could see he tried
EmThrough (022000@1)the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light

Chorus2

DDaddy (xx0232@1)tell me another story
ATell (x02220@1)me about the lows and the highs
C (x32010@1)                                                    GTell (320003@1)me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth
or a lie
D (xx0232@1)                                                               ATell (x02220@1)me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad
C (x32010@1)                                                               GWith (320003@1)the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in
their hand
Em (022000@1)                                          GMy (320003@1)Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back when the world was gray
A (x02220@1)                                                 EmBefore (022000@1)black and white went and chose up sides and gave a little bit of both their way
                                          GThe (320003@1)only blood that's any cleaner is the blood that's blue or greener
A (x02220@1)                                        EmWithout (022000@1)either you just get meaner and the blood you gave gives you away
D A C G

Chorus1
DSon (xx0232@1)come running
AYou (x02220@1)better come quick
C (x32010@1)                  GThis (320003@1)rotgut moonshine is making me sick
    D (xx0232@1)                                    AYour (x02220@1)Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
C (x32010@1)                  GDown (320003@1)so far even the Devil won't stay
EmWhere (022000@1)I call to the Lord with all my soul
GI (320003@1)can hear him rattling the chains on the door
AHe (x02220@1)couldn't get in I could see he tried
EmThrough (022000@1)the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light
Em G A Em

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