Where The Devil Wont Stay Chords & Lyrics - Drive-by Truckers

[D]My daddy played poker in the woods they say, b[F]ack in his younger days

[G]Prohibition was the talk but the rich folks walked to the [D]woods where my daddy stayed

J[D]ugs and jars from shiners, these old [F]boys here they aint biners

[G]Came from the 29er's, it didn't take a h[D]ole in the ground to put the bottum in their face

Instrumental: [D] [F] [G] [D] (2x)

[VERSE #2]

Back in the 30's when the dust bowl dried and the woods of Alabama didn't see no light
My daddy played poker by a hardwood fire, squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire
Scrap like a wildcat, fights till the end. Trap a wildcat and take its skin
Deal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole
One hand on the jug, but you never do know

Chorus Intro: [C] [G] [Bb] [F]

[CHORUS #1]

[C]Son come running

[G]Better come quick

[Bb]This rotgut moonshine is [F]making me sick

[C]Your momma called the law and they're gonna[G] take me away

[Bb]Down so far even the d[F]evil wont stay

[D]Where I called to the Lord with all my soul

I could h[F]ear him rattling the chain on the door

He [G]couldn't get in, I could see he tried

Through the sh[D]adows of the cage around the 40 watt light

Instrumetal

[CHORUS #2]

[C]Daddy tell me another story

[G]Tell me about the low's and the high's

[Bb]Tell me how to tell the difference between what they t[F]ell me is the truth or a lie

[C]Tell me why the ones who have so much make the o[F]nes who don't go mad

with the s[Bb]ame skin stretched over their white bones and the s[F]ame jug in their hand

Verse #3

My daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back when the world was gray
Before black and white went and chose up sides and gave a little bit of both their way
The only blood that's any cleaner is the blood that's blue or greener
Without either you just get meaner and the blood you gave gives you away

Chorus Intro

[CHORUS]

Then it's just [D] [F] [G] [A] till the end.