Paul McCartney – Run Devil Run (Guitar)

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Run devil run, the angels having fun making winners out of sinners better leave before it's done.

  B
When he gets through, he'll be coming after you,

 A                             A-G- A               E
listen what I'm saying to you ru-un.  Run devil run.

 E
By a swamp in Alabama in the cold in the damp.

 E
Sittin reading by the light of a kerosene lamp.

 A
Lives a holly roller with a mission on her mind.

 E
Got to spread the word to anybody she can find.

 B
You can hear her screaming any time in night or day.

  E
This is what she says to keep the demons away.

 E
Run devil run, the angels having fun,

 E
making winners out of sinners better leave before it's done.

  B
When he gets through, he'll be coming after you, 

 A                             A-G- A               E
listen what I'm saying to you ru-un.  Run devil run.

Her brother and her sister said that she brought them down. Steppin on the bus that was heading to town. There they started drinking, they got into a fight. The sheriff introduced them to the jailhouse for a night. When the holy roller came to town to pay the bail, this is what she sang as she was leaving the jail. Run devil run, the angels... Inter:[A E A B] x2 Well, by the middle of the summer they were back in the shack. Picking cotton for a livin keep 'em on the right track. Visiting the nieghbours trying to spread the good news. Singing gospel music with a hint of the blues. All of them determined to deliver the goods, now you hear the music coming out on the woods. Run devil run, the angels...

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You'ld better ru-un.  Run devil run.

 E             A-G- A            E
You'ld better ru-un.  Run devil run.