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[Verse 1]
             
I lit out from

             
 Reno, I was t

railed by twen

ty hounds
             
Didn't get to 

              
sleep last nig

             
ht 'til the mo

rning came aro

und.

[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, an

  
d he loaned me

 twenty 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 caug

ht me there
             
He took my twe

              
nty dollar bil

      
l and vanished

 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.


[Bridge 2]

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.