Friend Of The Devil - Grateful Dead

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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 I lit out fro

        | 
m Reno, I was 

         
trailed by twe

        
nty hounds.
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 Didn't get to

           
 sleep that ni

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ght till the
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 morning came 

      
around.

[Chorus]
|
 Set out runni

n' but I take 

my time, a
|
 friend of the

 devil is a fr

iend of mine, 

if
|
 I get home be

fore daylight,

 I
|            
 just might ge

       |
t some sleep t

onight.

[Verse 2]
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 Ran in-to the

           
 devil, babe, 

|         
he loaned me t

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wenty bills,
 |         
I spent the ni

        
ght in Utah, i

 |       
n a cave up in

       
 the hills.

[Chorus]
|
 Set out runni

n' but I take 

my time, a
|
 friend of the

 devil is a fr

iend of mine, 

if
|
 I get home be

fore daylight,

 I
|            
 just might ge

       |
t some sleep t

onight.

[Verse 3]
 |        
I ran down to 

         
the levee, but

 |      
 the devil cau

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ght me there.
   |       
He took my twe

        
nty dollar bil

   |        
l and vanished

      
 in the air.

[Chorus]
|
 Set out runni

n' but I take 

my time, a
|
 friend of the

 devil is a fr

iend of mine, 

if
|
 I get home be

fore daylight,

 I
|            
 just might ge

       |
t some sleep t

onight.

[Bridge]
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 Got two reaso

            | 
ns why I cry a

              
way each lonel

      |
y night,
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 First one's n

              
amed sweet Ann

           |
e Marie, and
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 she's my hear

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ts delight.
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 Second one is

              
 prison, baby,

   |          
 the sheriff's

              
 on my trail, 

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and
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 if he catches

              
 up with me, I

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'll spend my l

          | | |
ife in jail.

[Verse 4]
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 Got a wife in

           
 Chino, babe, 

 |      
and one in Che

        |
rokee.     The
|         
 first one say

          
s she's got my

       |
 child, but
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 it don't look

         
 like me.

[Chorus]
|
 Set out runni

n' but I take 

my time, a
|
 friend of the

 devil is a fr

iend of mine, 

if
|
 I get home be

fore daylight,

 I
|            
 just might ge

       |
t some sleep t

onight.

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