D _ _ Folks, you know Cody Jinks traveled back to the
A Sonic Ranch in far west Texas to
E record.
I'm Not The Devil.
A It was the same formula that worked on Adobe Sessions.
G Now
D here's Cody's take on our first featured live
A performance from his 2016 album.
_ I'm Not The Devil,
E title track.
Alright, you gotta
D think.
Towards the end of this month
A long recording, I'm fried so I'm not even wanting to be in.
the studio and they're like, just go away and just try to write
D something.
And I'm like,
A I've written a whole friggin record I can't write anymore.
My buddy Ward Davis came out, grabbed the guitars, go over to the porch of the
D house.
that we were staying in and we had
A it written in probably 30 minutes, all but probably the.
last two lines.
Like we
E were sitting there talking about how good the song was, we were just written like holy crap.
So
A we walked back to the studio from the house after 30 minutes and everybody's looking at.
D us like what the hell are you guys doing.
You know, you're supposed to be working.
And I was telling
A Ward, because we knew we had a monster song,
E and I was like, don't.
say anything dude,
A I was like, be coy.
And they were looking at us like, man, these guys just can't
D do it.
_ .
And we were like, _ we just wrote a
A hit.
_ .
We played it, everybody's sitting
E there and it's like, _ let's go record that right now.
And
A we've never done that before.
We stopped what we were doing and went in and threw it down, man.
_ Yeah, it's cool.
It's a _
N good song.
I'm really proud of it.
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C# _ _ _ .
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F# _ _ _
C# _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _
G# _
A#m _ _
C# _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ .
_ _ _ There ain't no excuse _
F# that I'm
C# just a man.
_ .
_ _ _ I slipped and I fell _
G# and got out
A#m of hand.
_ _ _ _ _
C# I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ The _ _
G# rotten _ _ lullaby
F# _ held in
C# my head.
G# Got caught up believing _
F# in lies that were
C# said.
And
A#m in a moment of weakness,
G# I stumbled and I made
F# my bed.
_ .
D#m _
C# But I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ _ .
_ _ There ain't no _ excuse
F# that I'm just
C# a man.
_ _ .
_ I slipped and I fell
G# and got out of
A#m _ _ .
hand.
_
C# _ I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _
F# _ _ _
C# _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _
F# _ _ _
C# _ _ .
_ _ _
A#m _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _
G# _ _ _ _ _ _ .
F# _ _ _ _ _ _
C# _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _
F# _ _ _ .
C# _ _ _ _ _ _
G# There's ten thousand reasons
F# for you
C# not to sing.
G# And no one would blame you
F# if you want
C# it that way.
A#m It might take some time, but
G# I'll show you that I'm _
F# worth the wait.
_ _ _
C# _ I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ .
_ _ _ There ain't no _ excuse
F# that I'm just
C# a man.
_ .
_ _ I slipped and I fell
G# and got
A#m out of _ _ hand.
_
C# But I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ .
_ _ _ And I'll spend forever,
G# do all that
A#m I can.
_ to
C# prove I'm not the devil
F# you think that
C# I am.
_ .
_ _ _ I'm not the devil.
_
F# _ _ _ _ _
C# _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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G _ .