Chords for Ray Wiley Hubbard - Conversation With The Devil

_ A lot of people come up and ask me about songwriting and when I _ [G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[G] _ wrote this next song here
when I was over in Europe, I'll say [D] I'll name drop here, I run over [Abm] there with a young guy named Slade Cleaves.
Yeah!
[Db] _ So we were doing this songwriter tour and Slade was explaining how he came to write [Eb] this song.
He's got this great song called Give Me One Good Year.
It's on his album [Ab] called Broke Down.
And he was explaining how he [E] came to write this song.
He said he was going through a really [G] bad period in his life.
Things were really not going well.
Things were so bad and [Db] so hopeless [G] that in desperation he threw out this prayer.
Give me one good year.
He took that prayer and [D] he put it [Eb] in this beautiful [Abm] melody and put it in this really powerful lyric.
And made this [G] wonderful song and he explained it and he sang the song and I was so moved by that.
I said that's something I should do.
I should take a prayer and write a [Ab] song.
Until I realized that the only prayer I know is God if you get me out of this I promise I'll [Dbm] never do it [C] again. _
_ [D] I didn't quite [G] have the same.
_ _ [E] _
_ You know [Ab] I don't want to get Billy Joe in here people but [Gb] [Ab] talk about prayer really quick.
Prayer is a very mysterious wonderful thing.
It really is.
The great thing about prayer, [G] especially that prayer, God if you get me out of this I promise I'll [Ab] never do it again.
It's worked four times.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Woo!
I'd _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ like to preface this with a [N] quote.
That's a bleep.
_ It's attributed to Woody Cuthbert.
He said it's [Ab] a folk singer's job to [Db] comfort disturbed people, [G]
to disturb comfortable people.
_ _ Had _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ a dream last night I was catching a hill in a valley chilly sky.
I walked up to the stage where you don't need no leather to ride.
[Em] It all lit _ up, a camera caught a light.
[D] [G] You ain't gonna need that leather jacket it gets kinda [D] warm.
There's one way in there's no way out it looks like.
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_ _ _ _ _ Well _ there's got to be something wrong.
I ain't a bad guy.
I just write these little songs.
I [D] always pay my unioners at [G] Austin and Fadeland.
And he said what about alcohol?
_ _ [D] I said well yeah.
There's no reason to put me in hell.
[G] Cause I've been using cocaine to get high just like Wes Smith. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ He said come on over here son let me show you around.
Oh I guess we'll put the TV preacher the never-lustless clown.
He's always blaming me for [Em] everything wrong [G] under the sun.
Well it ain't that hard to do what I try to do.
It's not as much fun.
[D] Then they walk around thinking they're better than me and you.
[G] _ In the motel room doing what the midnight suit. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ All the mothers on the river where they go and they spiral _ _ _ _ _ _ the tape.
And all the mothers who wait till they get to Walmart and slap the kids.
Instead of showing them what to do off the right they hit on for what they did.
[D] And their daddies didn't run off.
Only abandon their daughters and sons.
[G] Anybody _ _ that's gonna burn them tends to die. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well everybody stand here and stand up in heaven with God and his son.
I said the mistakes that saints and students of a metaphysical one on one.
People who love and who care and who share and who try to do what's right.
If you know souls read the stories to the babies every night.
[D] What you won't find up in heaven are Christian Coalition,
Ryan Winkler, the [G] country program director,
and Nashville record executives. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well I said I made some mistakes but I'm not as bad as all those guys.
How come God do this to me?
Oh can't you sympathize?
He said you're wrong about God being cruel and mean.
He said God is the most loving thing that's ever been [D] seen.
I said how shall I tell me this which will look at the truth?
He said [G] well voodoo is not a prison but Jesus he would have made a good cooter. _ _
Well everybody.
_ _ _ Well every lockout's gonna be stuck here as far as I could tell.
So I thought I might as well suck up.
You know what the hell.
I said hey remember that song that Charlie Daniels did
about how he went down to Georgia and he played fiddle against that kid.
[D] He said yeah it broke my heart.
But what are you gonna do?
He said well to tell you the truth [G] I thought your solo was the better of the two. _ _
I still do.
_ _ Well then I woke and I lied. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I took this dream as a sign it wasn't God.
So I thought I better _ speak to me directly.
_ Anyway [D] so much has changed about _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
this even life.
Don't cause a kill the heat.
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