To Beat The Devil Akkorde von
Eric Church
Eric Church

N/A
Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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I had this song and Chris saved my life and I wouldn't,
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for this song,
if it weren't for Chris Gustavus.
I'm having a hell of a
hard enough time
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for him sitting right there as I play it.
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I had a, I had, you know,
a rough time in Nashville.
Like a lot of people,
they get told no a lot.
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And I'd played that game where,
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you know,
if I get told no one more time,
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I'm out of here.
I'm packing up,
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I'm going back to North Carolina.
I went into this particular meeting
knowing that this was gonna be the meeting
where it all happens.
And I remember I played
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probably a half a song,
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and the guy said, started waving his hand,
And he goes, um, I don't,
I don't know where you're
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from.
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I don't know much about you,
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but I'd go back there.
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And, and that's one time I was going to,
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an d I went to my car in the parking lot
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of this publishing house,
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and I just got the Austin Sessions on a CD,
and the next song was
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to beat the devil.
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and it talked about,
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it talked about the very thing I was,
I was going through.
So I decided to stay one more day
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af ter I got drunk.
I got drunk first,
then I stayed one more day,
and the next day I got a publishing deal,
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phone rang. so I'm here.
I'm here because of that man right there.
It was winter time in Nashville,
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down on Music City Road,
and I was looking for a place
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to get myself out of the cold.
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To warm the frozen fever
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that was eatin' at my soul.
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To keep the chilly wind off my guitar.
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My thirsty wanted whiskey,
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but my hungry needed beans.
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It had been a month of paydays
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since I'd heard that eagle scream.
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So with a stomach full of empty
In a pocket full of dreams,
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I left my pride
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and stepped inside a bar.
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Actually, I guess you could
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call it a tavern.
Cigarette smoke through the ceiling,
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sawdust on the floor,
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friendly shadows.
I saw that there was just one old man
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sitting at the bar.
And the mirror,
could see him checking out
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me and my guitar.
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And he turned and said,
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come up here, boy,
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and show us who you are.
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I said, I'm dry.
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He bought me a beer.
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He nodded at my guitar.
He said, it's a tough life, ain't it?
I just looked at him.
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He said, you ain't makin' any money,
are you, boy?
I said, mister,
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you been readin' my mail.
Need a smile.
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He said, let me see that guitar.
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I got somethin' you oughta hear.
And he laid it on me.
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If you waste your time talkin' to
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The people you don't listen to
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The things that you are sayin'
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Who do you think's gonna hear?
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And if you should die, explain it how
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The things that they complain about
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The things that could be changing
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Who do you think's gonna care?
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There were other lonely singers
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In a world turned up blind
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Crucified by what they hadn't shown
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And their voices have been scattered
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by the swirling winds of time
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Cause the truth remains
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that no one wants to know
The old man was a stranger,
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but I'd heard his song before
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Back before failure had me locked
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out of both sides of the door
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Well, no one stood behind me
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but my shadow on the floor
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And lonesome was
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more than a state of mind
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You see, the devil,
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he haunts the hungry men
If you don't want to join him,
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you got to beat him
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I ain't saying I beat the devil,
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but I did drink his beer for nothing,
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an d I stole that son of a
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bitch's song.
And you can still hear me singing to you,
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the people that you don't listen to,
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the things
That I am safe
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And someone's gonna hear
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And I guess I'll die explaining how
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The things that they complain about
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Are things they could be changing
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Hoping someone's gonna care
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Well, I was born a lonely singer
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And I'm bound to die the same
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But I've got a fiend to
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hunger in my soul
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And if I never have a nip,
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I won't ever die ashamed
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Cause I don't believe
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that no one wants to know
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Yeah, I don't believe
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that no one wants to know
You

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