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 I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds.  
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 Didn't get to sleep that night till the  
:C       C/B  C/A    C/G 
 morning came around. 
 
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 Set out runnin' but I take my time, a 
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 friend of the devil is a friend of mine, if 
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 I get home before daylight, I 
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 just might get some sleep tonight. 
 
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 Ran in-to the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills, .  I 
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 spent the night in Utah, in a cave up in the hills. 
 
 
 
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I ran down to the levee, but the devil caught me there . He 
 
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 took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air. 
 
 
 
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 Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night, 
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 First one's named sweet Anne Marie, and  
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 she's my hearts delight. 
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 Second one is prison, baby, the sheriff's on my trail, and 
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 if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail. 
 
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 Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee.     The      
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 first one says she's got my child, but  
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 it don't look like me. 
 
 
 
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