Loose approximation of the intro
G | D/F# | Em7 | D | C | G/B | Am7 | D |
x2 |
The intro pattern more or less continues through all the verses, but I’m not writing that all out
G | C |
I lit out from Reno, I was | trailed by twenty hounds |
G | C |
Didn’t get to sleep that night ‘till the | morning came around |
D |
Set out runnin’ but I take my time |
Am7 | |
A | friend of the devil is a friend of mine |
D | Am7 | D |
I get home before daylight, I | just might get some sleep to | night |
G | C |
Ran into the devil, babe, he | loaned me twenty bills |
G | C |
Spent the night in Utah in a | cave up in the hills |
D |
Set out runnin’ but I take my time |
Am7 | |
A | friend of the devil is a friend of mine |
D | Am7 | D |
I get home before daylight, I | just might get some sleep to | night |
G | C | |
I | ran down to the levee but the | devil caught me there |
G | C | |
He | took my twenty dollar bill and | vanished in the air |
D |
Set out runnin’ but I take my time |
Am7 | |
A | friend of the devil is a friend of mine |
D | Am7 | D |
I get home before daylight, I | just might get some sleep to | night |
D |
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night |
C | |
The | first one’s named Sweet Anne Marie, and she’s my heart’s delight |
D | |
The | second one is prison, babe, the sheriff’s on my trail |
Am7 | C | D | |
And | if he catches up with me, I’ll | spend my life in | jail |
G | C |
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and | one in Cherokee |
G | C | |
The | first one say she’s got my child, but | it don’t look like me |
D |
Set out runnin’ but I take my time |
Am7 | |
A | friend of the devil is a friend of mine |
D | Am7 | D |
I get home before daylight, I | just might get some sleep to | night |
Solo on verse chords
D |
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night |
C | |
The | first one’s named Sweet Anne Marie, and she’s my heart’s delight |
D | |
The | second one is prison, babe, the sheriff’s on my trail |
Am7 | C | D | |
And | if he catches up with me, I’ll | spend my life in | jail |
G | C |
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and | one in Cherokee |
G | C | |
The | first one say she’s got my child, but | it don’t look like me |
D |
Set out runnin’ but I take my time |
Am7 | |
A | friend of the devil is a friend of mine |
D | Am7 | D |
I get home before daylight, I | just might get some sleep to | night |