Chords for Chuck Mead "The Devil By Their Side"

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_ He was a quiet mess day early [F] summer morning in the third year [C] of the war.
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_ _ _ [F] Everything in town was in the same place he'd slept the [B] night [C] before.
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_ _ [B] Well [Ab] him sleeping shapes I [B] never knew.
_ [F] There was a man who had been in a saddle [Eb] all night [A] just to bring him a barbecue.
[Abm] _ [C] Fighting like hell [B] with a devil five [C] inside of him.
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[C] _ _ _ [Eb] Well the [E] leader of the horde he [F] held a grudge cause they had put [Eb] his [C] girl in jail.
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[C] _ _ _ [Ebm] [F] This second hand man was known to drape himself in Yankee [C] ponytails.
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_ _ [C] _ [B] _ [Ab] Oh over three hundred [G] men strong.
_ [B] [F] And most of them wanted a gift but they couldn't [Ebm] get it cause you [F] know you don't live that long.
[C] Fighting like [B] hell with a devil [C] five inside.
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[C] _ _ _ [F] In a terrible yell they [Bb] swung on [F] down killed the men and [Bb] burned the [F] town.
They said it all a [Bb] lie to [F] you plain.
The widows were calling their husbands [F] names over a hundred [Bb] and fifty dead.
[F] The rapists just laughed at the [C] bloodshed they were.
Fighting like [G] hell with [Dm] a devil [B] five [C] inside. _
[Eb] Come [C] here cock hole.
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[C] _ _ _ [F] Through the smoke you could hear the [Bb] shrieks and [F] moans.
The bodies all lying on [Bb] the curb [F] stone.
Some men hid in [Bb] the [F] cornfield.
One living over [Bb] for a [F] sheep.
Murder and chaos [Bb] in their [F] wake.
They took everything they could [C] take.
Fighting like [B] hell with [G] a devil [Em] [C] five inside.
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[C] _ _ _ Well the people who were spared they [F] built the town back from the ashes [C] it had been.
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[C] _ _ _ [F] And they won the war and there was peace for the first time since the [C] jungle wind.
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_ _ [C] _ [Em] _ [Ab] some of them raiders [G] went pro.
And [F] they were still robbing Yankee [Eb] banks and trains in _ 1874.
[C] _ [Eb] Fighting like [Dm] hell with a devil [C] five inside.
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[C] _ _ _ _ Fighting like [F] hell with [G] a devil [F] [C] five inside.
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Thank you very much