Friend Of The Devil Lyrics - Friends Of Mine - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

I lit out from Reno 

I was trailed by twenty hounds 

Didn't get to sleep that night 

Till the morning came around 

chorus: 

I set out running but I take my time 

A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine 

If I get home before daylight 

I just might get some sleep tonight 

I ran into the Devil, babe 

He loaned me twenty bills 

I spent that night in Utah 

In a cave up in the hills 

I ran down to the levee 

But the Devil caught me there 

He took my twenty-dollar bill 

And he vanished in the air 

Got two reasons why I cry 

away each lonely night 

First one's named sweet Ann Marie 

and she's my heart's delight 

Second one is prison, baby 

the sheriff's on my trail 

And if he catches up with me 

I'll spend my life in jail 

Got a wife in Cheno, babe 

And one in Cherokee 

First one says she's got my child 

But it don't look like me 

You can borrow from the Devil 

You can borrow from a friend 

But the Devil will give you twenty 

When your friend only got ten