Performers: Mark O¡¯Connor with Charlie Daniels
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Featuring: Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt
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Album: Heroes
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Words and music: Crain, Daniels, Digregorio, Edwards, Hayward, Kott,
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Marshall, O'Connor, Spicher, Story, Stuart
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It's been ten long years since the devil laid his fiddle at Johnny's feet
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And it burned inside his mind the way he suffered that defeat
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In the darkest pits of hell the devil hatched an evil plan
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To tempt the fiddle player for he's just a mortal man
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"The sin of pride," the devil cried is what will do you in
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"I thought we had this settled, I'm the best there's ever been."
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Johnny did you ever know that time keeps marching on
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The coldest hour is the one comes just before the dawn
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The devil's back in Georgia will you stand up to the test
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Or will you let the devil be the best?
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"In truth I haven't played much since the baby came in June
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But give me half a minute an' I'll get this fiddle back in tune"
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The devil grabbed the golden fiddle out of Johnny's hand and said
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"Though I'm the fiddle player underground and I walk upon the land"
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"Y'all just better be just turnin' back if you want this boy to win
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'Cos practice is the only cure for the predicament he's in"
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"Now devil it would be a sin for you to get my bow
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You go on back to hell and to the wood shed I will go"
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Johnny are you practising or will your hands grow cold?
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The devil walks the land and plays a fiddle made of gold
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Can you hear the babe a crying, will he ever know
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The devil wants his daddy's very soul?
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"Before we play I want to thank you for letting God's own Word ring true
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He said you can't be trusted" "Yes but what you gonna do?"
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"Well you get your fiddle devil if you think that you can win
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'Cos I beat you once you old dog and I can whip your butt again"
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John Brown's green, the devil is red
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Mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread
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The devil's dream is that he can win
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But Johnny is the best that's ever been
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The Devil Comes Back to Georgia
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| The Charlie Daniels Band |
