Colter Wall - Tying knots in the devils tail
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[Intro]
F F F
[Verse 1]
FWell it was way high up in The Sierry Petes
Where the yellow-jack pines grow taCll
Rusty Diggs and Sandy Sam
Had a round-up camp last fFall
[Verse 2]
FThey had their ponies and their running irons
aBbnd maybe a dog or twCo
They 'lowed they'd brand every lop-eared calf
That came within their Fview
[Verse 3]
FWell many a lop-eared dogie
If he didn't hush up byC day
Had his long ears whittled and his old hide scorched
In a most artistic Fway
[Verse 4]
FThen say Rusty Digs to Sandy Sam
BbAs he throwed his seago doCwn
"I'm tired of cowboyography
And I figures I'll go to townF."
[Verse 6]
FThey starts her in a Kentucky Bar
At the head of Whiskey CRow
And they ends her up at the Depot House
Some forty drinks Fbelow
[Verse 7]
FThen he wind'er up and they turns her 'round
BbAnd goes the other waCy
Tell you the Lord-forsaken truth
Them boys got drunk that Fday
[Verse 8]
FWell they was a -headin' back to camp
And packin' a mighty gCood load
Well who should they meet but the Devil himself
Come a-prancin' down the Froad
[Verse 9]
FNow the Devil he said you cowboy skunks
YBbou'd better go hunt your hCole
'Cause I come up from the Hells rim rock
To gather in your Fsouls
[Verse 10]
FSays Rustry Jiggs to the Devil
Though I know CWe're' tight
No Devil ever took no cowboy souls
Without some kind of a Ffight."
[Verse 11]
FSo Rusty Jiggs punched a hole in his rope
He swang it straight anCd true
He ropes the Devil 'round the horns
And he take his slack up Ftoo
[Verse 12]
FNow Sandy Bob was a reita man
With his rope all coiled up Aneat
CSo he shakes her out and he builds him a loop
And he ropes the Devils hind Ffeet
[Verse 13]
FWell they throwed him down on the desert ground
While the irons was a gettin' Chot
They cropped and swallow-forked his ears
And they branded him Fup a lot
[Verse 14]
FWell they pruned him up with a dehornin' saw
BbTied knots in his tail for a Cjoke
Then they rode off and left him there
Necked up to a black JackF oak
[Verse 15]
FSo if you're up in the Sierry Petes
ABbnd you hear one awful waCil
Know its that Devil a-bellowin arounf
about them knots in his taiFl