Standard (EADGBE)

I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds

Didn't get to sleep that night till the morning came around

Chorus

Set out runnin' but I take my time

a friend of the devil is a friend of mine

If I get home before day light

I just might get some sleep tonight

Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills

I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills

Chorus

Ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there

took my twenty dollar bill and he vanished in the air ...CHORUS

Bridge

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night

The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight

Second one is prison, baby, the shefiff's on my trail

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and if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee

First one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me