Artist: Ray Wylie Hubbard (With Lucinda Williams and Eric Church)
Song: Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Screamin’ in a mic, playin’ a Strat through a Vox AC-30
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Gives a troublesome back and a ringin’ in a ears
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My last band covered the Clash, the Kinks and the Replacements
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Seems my soul is as misfit as my years
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Now I got a Princeton reverb, it’s in an old Anvil case
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It’s in the back of a Ford Econoline
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It’s a 6-hour drive to Austin and the Continental Club
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I got to change the strings on my ES-335
[Chorus]
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Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
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Playin’ a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band
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And lovin’ a woman who can out-cuss any man
D A G
Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
[Verse]
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I met her in LA, we was openin’ for Son Volt
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She had eyes mascaraed like Eva Green’s
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She sparkled with wildness like the blue yonder
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She done a time in darkness and was 2 years clean
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She wears an old leather jacket, it was made by Irish saints
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And boots engraved with skulls and thorns
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She got her ink in Tulsa still she don’t like red-dirt bands
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Bein’ in love with her is like livin’ in a thunderstorm
[Chorus]
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Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
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Playin’ a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band
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And lovin’ a woman who can out-cuss any man
D A G
Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
[Interlude]
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[Bridge]
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Now the faithless live in greys and faded purples
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And the gamblers never hit on 12’s or 2’s
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The drunken poets disappear into big shadows
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And the rock ‘n roll believers sing the easy rider blues
[Chorus]
D A G
Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
D A G
Playin’ a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band
D Em G
And lovin’ a woman who can out-cuss any man
D A G
Tell the devil that I’m gettin’ there as fast as I can
[Outro]
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