Jerry Garcia – Friend Of The Devil (Guitar)

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Grateful Dead Riff Walls Up Chromatically From Open D String: Then Repeatedly Walks Down Chromatically From Open G Octave String During Verse Intro: Single string Riff Walks Up to Start: (Open D) - E - F# Then: Single String Notes Walking Down Repeatedly: (Open G)- F# - E - D - C - B - A - G (/) Forward Slash Symbolizes Half Step Passing Notes
G
I lit it out from Reno

 C
I was trailed by twenty hounds

  G
Didn't get to sleep last night

   C
'Til the morning came around

  D
Set out runnin' but I take my time

     Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine

    D
If I get home before daylight

    Am            B/C          D
I just might get some sleep tonight

G
Well, I ran into the devil

   C
And he loaned me twenty bills

  G
I spent the night in Utah

     C
In a cave up in the hills

   D
I set out runnin' but I take my time

    Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine

   D
If I get home before daylight

  Am          B/C          D
Just might get some sleep tonight

    G
But I ran down to the levee

        C
But the devil caught me there

      G
And he took my twenty dollars

    C
And he Vanished In The Air

   D
I set out runnin' but I take my time

    Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine

    D
If I get home before daylight

  Am             B/C         D
Just might get some sleep tonight

     D
I've got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night

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

   A7 /  D
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail

     Am                           B/C             )'   D
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail

G
Well, I got a wife in Chino, baby

  C
One in Cherokee

   G
One that says she's got my child

  C
She don't look like me

  D
Set out runnin' but I take my time

   Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine

   D
If I get home before daylight

  Am           B/C          D
I just might get some sleep tonight
(Alternate Bridge And Verse)
D
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night,

Am
The first ones named sweet Anne Marie, and she’s my hearts delight
A7/ D Second one is hell fire babe, Got the devil on my tail
    Am                          B/C                 D
And if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in hell

G
You can borrow from the devil,

C
you can borrow from a friend

G
But the devil will give you twenty, when your

C
friend's got only ten

  D
Set out runnin' but I take my time

   Am
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine

   D
If I get home before daylight

  Am           B/C          D
I just might get some sleep tonight