ramblin' jack elliott
friend of the devil
I lit out from Reno  I was trailed by twenty hounds  Didn't get to sleep that night  Till the morning came around   chorus: I set out running but I take my time  A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine  If I get home before daylight  I just might get some sleep tonight  I ran into the Devil, babe  He loaned me twenty bills  I spent that night in Utah  In a cave up in the hills   I ran down to the levee  But the Devil caught me there  He took my twenty-dollar bill  And he vanished in the air   Got two reasons why I cry  away each lonely night  First one's named sweet Ann Marie  and she's my heart's delight  Second one is prison, baby  the sheriff's on my trail  And if he catches up with me  I'll spend my life in jail   Got a wife in Cheno, babe  And one in Cherokee  First one says she's got my child  But it don't look like me   You can borrow from the Devil  You can borrow from a friend  But the Devil will give you twenty  When your friend only got ten 