Conversation With The Devil Chords by Ray Wylie Hubbard

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_ I had a dream last night I was cast into hell by a jealous guy
The devil walked up and said you don't need no lightning rod
[C] It hardly ever rains down here I can't recall the last [G] storm
You ain't gonna need that leather jacket it gets kinda warm
[D] There's one way in there's no way out It looks like you're here to stay
[G] All the places are messed it's overcrowded more
Coming in every day I _ _ _ _ _ _ said oh man wait a minute
There's got to be something wrong I ain't a bad guy
I just write these little songs [C] I always pay my union dues
I don't stay in the passing lane [G] And he said what about
All that whiskey and cocaine [D] I said well yeah
But that's no reason to throw me in hell
[G] Cause I didn't use the cocaine to get high I just like the way it smell _ _ _ _ _
_ _ He said come on over here son Let me show you around
Over this way we put the preachers I never liked those clowns
[C] They're always blaming me for everything wrong under the sun
[G] It ain't that harder to do what's right It's just maybe not as much fun
[D] Then they walk around thinking they're better than me and you
[G] And then they get caught in a motel room doing what they said not to do _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now all the murderers and the rapists they go in this fiery lake
As well as most of the politicians and the cops on the take
[C] And all the mothers who wait till they get to Kmart to [G] spank the kids
Instead of showing them what to do what's right
They just hit them for what they [D] did
And all the daddies who run off and abandon their daughters and sons
[G] Oh anybody who hurts a child is gonna burn until they're done _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Everybody's down here I said who's up in heaven with God and the sun
Oh some saints and mystics and students of metaphysics 101
[C] People who care and share and love and try to do what's [Gm] right
[G] Beautiful old souls who read little stories to the babies every night
[D] What you won't find up in heaven are Christian coalition right wing [G] conservatives
Country program directors and Nashville record executives _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now I said I've made some mistakes but I'm not as bad as those guys
How can God do this to me?
Oh can't you sympathize?
[C] He said you're wrong about God being cruel and mean
[G] Oh God is the most loving thing that's never been seen
[D] I said hot shot tell me this which religion is the truest?
He [G] said they're all about the same
Buddha was not a Christian but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist _ _ _ _
_ _ Well I thought about my future I didn't seem to have much of one
I looked around to leave but there was no place to run
[C] I said I don't suppose I could go back and try living again
[G] You know like reincarnation I hear that's the way it's always been
[D] I can't answer that he said you're gonna have to wait for that response
[G] But it's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once _ _ _ _
_ _ Well it looked like I was gonna be stuck here as far as I could tell
I thought I might as well suck up you know what the hell
[C] I said you know that song that Charlie Daniels did
[G] About how you went down to Georgia and played fiddle against that kid
He [D] said yeah it broke my heart but you know what are you gonna do?
[G] I said to tell you the truth I thought your solo was the better of the two _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well then I woke up and I was lying in my bed
I ran upstairs and kissed my little boy on the sleeping head
I took this [C] dream as a sign from God so I thought I better [G] pray
I said don't ever speak to me directly and thanks anyway
[D] Now so much has changed about me besides me just giving up red meat
[G] Some get spiritual cause they see the light and some cause they feel the heat _ _ _ _ _ _
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