To Beat The Devil Ukulele tab

	  Verse 1:(spoken) 
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 	 It was winter time in Nashville,down on music city row 
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 	 And i was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold 
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 	 To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my soul 
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 	 And keep the chilly wind off my guitar 
 
 
Verse 2:(spoken) 
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 	 My thirsty wanted whisky,my hungry needed beans 
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 	 But it'd been of month of paydays since i've heard that eagle scream 
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 	 So with my stomach full of empty and my pockets full of dreams 
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 	 I left my pride and stepped inside a bar 
 
 
Bridge:(spoken) 
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 	 Actually i guess you'd could call it a Tavern... 
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 	 Cigarette smoke to the ceiling and stardust on the floor 
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 	 Friendly shadows 
 
 
Verse 3:(spoken) 
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 	 I saw that there was just one old man sittin' at the bar 
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 	 And in the mirror i could see him checkin' me and my guitar 
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 	 He turned,and said "Come up here boy,and show us what you are" 
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 	 I said "I'm dry"-and he brought me a beer 
 
 
Verse 1-bis:(spoken) 
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 	 He nodded at my guitar and said "It's a tough life,ain't it" 
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 	 I just looked at him,and he said "You ain't makin' any money,are you?" 
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 	 I said "You've been readin' my mail".He just smiled and said "Let me see your guitar" 
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 	 I've got something you want to hear.Then he laid it on me 
 
 
Verse sang 1: 
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 	 If you waste your time of talkin' to the people who don't listen 
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 	 To the things that you are sayin',who do you think's gonna hear 
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 	 And if you should die explaining how the things that they complain about 
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 	 Are things they could be changin' who do you think's gonna care 
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 	 There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind 
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 	 Who were crucified for what they tried to show 
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 	 And their voice's have been scattered by this world and winds of times 
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 	 Cause the truth remains that no one wants to know 
 
 
Verse 4:(spoken) 
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 	 Well,the old man was a stranger,but i'd heard his song before 
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 	 Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door 
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 	 When no one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor 
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 	 And lonesome was more than a state of mind 
 
 
Verse 2-bis:(spoken) 
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 	 You see,the devil haunts a hungry man,and if you don't wanna join him 
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 	 You got to beat him 
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 	 I ain't sayin' i beat the devil but i drank his beer for nothing 
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 	 Then i stole his song 
 
 
Verse sang 2: 
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 	 And you still can hear me singin' to the people who don't listen 
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 	 To the things that i am sayin',prayin' someones gonna hear 
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 	 And i guess i'll die explainig how the things that they complain about 
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 	 Are things they could be changin',hopin' someones gonna care 
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 	 I was born a lonely singer,and i'm bound to die the same 
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 	 But i've got to feed the hunger in my soul 
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 	 And if i never have a nickle i won't ever die ashamed 
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 	 Cause i don't believe that no one wants to know