[INTRO]

 /  /  /  (four times)


[VERSE-1]

             
I lit out from

       
 Reno, I was t

railed by twen

ty hounds
             
Didn't get to 

              
sleep last nig

   
ht 'till the m

orning came ar

ound


[CHORUS]


Set out runnin

' but I take m

y time
  
A friend of th

e devil is a f

riend of mine
             
If I get home 

              
before dayligh

            
t, I just migh

             
t get some sle

      
ep tonight


[VERSE-2]

             
Ran into the d

            
evil, babe, he

 loaned me twe

nty bills
             
I spent the ni

            
ght in Utah in

 a cave up in 

the hills


[CHORUS]


Set out runnin

' but I take m

y time
  
A friend of th

e devil is a f

riend of mine
             
If I get home 

              
before dayligh

            
t, I just migh

             
t get some sle

      
ep tonight


[VERSE-3]

             
I ran down to 

              
the levee, but

   
 the devil cau

ght me there
             
He took my twe

              
nty dollar bil

       
l, and vanishe

d in the air


[CHORUS]


Set out runnin

' but I take m

y time
  
A friend of th

e devil is a f

riend of mine
             
If I get home 

              
before dayligh

            
t, I just migh

             
t get some sle

      
ep tonight


[BRIDGE]


Got two reason

s why I cry aw

ay each lonely

 night,
    
The first one'

s named Sweet 

Anne Marie, an

d she's my hea

rts delight
    
The second one

 is prison, ba

be, the sherif

f's on my trai

l,
            
And if he catc

              
hes up with me

             
, I'll spend m

          
y life in jail


[VERSE-4]

             
Got a wife in 

              
Chino, babe, a

   
nd one in Cher

okee
             
The first one 

              
says she's got

              
 my child, but

 
 it don't look

 like me.


[CHORUS]


Set out runnin

' but I take m

y time
  
A friend of th

e devil is a f

riend of mine
             
If I get home 

              
before dayligh

            
t, I just migh

             
t get some sle

      
ep tonight


[INSTRUMENTAL]          


[BRIDGE]


Got two reason

s why I cry aw

ay each lonely

 night,
    
The first one'

s named Sweet 

Anne Marie, an

d she's my hea

rts delight
    
The second one

 is prison, ba

be, the sherif

f's on my trai

l,
            
And if he catc

              
hes up with me

             
, I'll spend m

          
y life in jail


[VERSE-4]

             
Got a wife in 

              
Chino, babe, a

   
nd one in Cher

okee
             
The first one 

              
says she's got

              
 my child, but

 
 it don't look

 like me.


[CHORUS]


Set out runnin

' but I take m

y time
  
A friend of th

e devil is a f

riend of mine
             
If I get home 

              
before dayligh

            
t, I just migh

             
t get some sle

      
ep tonight