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From: Harlan L Thompson

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL- Grateful Dead

G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/G
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/G
I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds
G G/F# G/E G/D C C/B C/A C/G
Didn't get to sleep that night till the morning came around

CHORUS:
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 day light
Am D riff 1 (as D - G)
I just might get some sleep tonight

Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills
I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills ...CHORUS

Ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
took my twenty dollar bill and he vanished in the air ...CHORUS

BRIDGE:
riff 2 D
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
C/G
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight
D
Second one is prison, baby, the shefiff's on my trail
Am C D riff 3 (D - G)
and if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
First one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me
...CHORUS

G: x x x 0 0 3 strum= base note, \ (downstroke), / (upstroke)
G/F#: x x 4 0 0 3 \ /
G/E: x x 2 0 0 3 \ /
G/D: x x 0 0 0 3

riff 1: D -0-------0-\-/---\-/---0-4--- riff 2: D -0---------
A -----0-2---\-/-0-\-/-4------- A -------0---
E ---2-------\-/---\-/--------- E ---0-2-----

riff 3: D ---0-------0-\-/---\-/-0---0-4-
A -0-----0-2---\-/-0-\-/---4-----
E -----2-------\-/---\-/---------


(from American Beauty, 1970)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)