Run devil run, the angels having fun
making winners out of sinners better leave before it’s done.
B
When he gets through, he’ll be coming after you,
A A-G- A E
listen what I’m saying to you ru-un. Run devil run.
E
By a swamp in Alabama in the cold in the damp.
E
Sittin reading by the light of a kerosene lamp.
A
Lives a holly roller with a mission on her mind.
E
Got to spread the word to anybody she can find.
B
You can hear her screaming any time in night or day.
E
This is what she says to keep the demons away.
E
Run devil run, the angels having fun,
E
making winners out of sinners better leave before it’s done.
B
When he gets through, he’ll be coming after you,
A A-G- A E
listen what I’m saying to you ru-un. Run devil run.
Her brother and her sister said that she brought them down.
Steppin on the bus that was heading to town.
There they started drinking, they got into a fight.
The sheriff introduced them to the jailhouse for a night.
When the holy roller came to town to pay the bail,
this is what she sang as she was leaving the jail.
Run devil run, the angels…
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Well, by the middle of the summer they were back in the shack.
Picking cotton for a livin keep ’em on the right track.
Visiting the nieghbours trying to spread the good news.
Singing gospel music with a hint of the blues.
All of them determined to deliver the goods,
now you hear the music coming out on the woods.
Run devil run, the angels…
E A-G- A E
You’ld better ru-un. Run devil run.
E A-G- A E
You’ld better ru-un. Run devil run.