Drive-By Truckers - Where The Devil Don't Stay Lyrics
My Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back in his younger days
Prohibition was the talk, but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed
Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners
They came from the twenty-niners
It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face
Back in the thirties when the dust bowl dried
And the woods in Alabama didn't see no light
My Daddy played poker by a hard wood fire
Squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire
Scrap like a wildcat fights till the end
Trap a wildcat and take his skin
Deal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole
One hand on the jug but you never do know
Son come running
This rotgut moonshine is making me sick
Your Mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
Down so far even the Devil won't stay
Where I call to the Lord with all my soul
I can hear him rattling the chains on the door
He couldn't get in I could see he tried
Through the shadows of the cage around the forty watt light
Daddy tell me another story
Tell me about the lows and the highs
Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth or a lie
Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad
With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in their hand
My Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back when the world was gray
Before black and white went and chose up sides and gave a little bit of both their way
The only blood that's any cleaner is the blood that's blue or greener
Without either you just get meaner and the blood you gave gives you away
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Drive-By Truckers Where The Devil Don't Stay Comments
Always remember that's how women are. Sell you out when you're providing for the family.
One of the best tunes ever favourite dbt song
At least I don't have sodomy, and infidelity on my soul.
Trucker here, I have never heard a better song. -John Bliss-1999-2019 Wildcat!
Forgot how good this was for about a decade and a half
Welcome back
My favorite song by DBT is cottonseed I remember the first time I heard it I was on a badass master craft skie boat with a JL audio sound system it literally sounded like a concert out on the lake and then I realized we were 75 feet from a cop and I played it over and over probably 100 times that day and then I looked a little deeper into DBT I have purchased every one of their albums for my self and even for my friends and family for gifts... Keep on rocking Drive by truckers....
Its the way of the road
The art work is as cool as the old Uriah Heap album covers . Music much different though .
This song turns the dump over and takes the waitress home, great jam.....
Check out The Degenerates on Netflix for some supreme comedy people.
Thanks Netflix
Yeah, just heard this on The Degenerates and came straight here. Hard core stuff!
Paola Nicole 😂
great rock song!!Timeless!!! Why is this band is so "unknown"??!!!!
“They came from the 29ers” what does he mean by that
donmige81 i think has something to do with the ending of prohibition after the stock market crash of 1929. Or maybe not.
Yea, I think it was the start of the depression, right in the middle of prohibition
There was a gold rush in Georgia in the 1820s
A couple these guys are from muscle shoals north Alabama area makes you wonder either they no someone or maybe related to somebody who may of hung around the state line
Genius band. Genius guitar. Genius lyrics. Genius bass. Genius vocal. Genius drumming.
heard them at Bonaroo 2005 first time . awsome
Walter. Amerika 2017
Sounds like my grandpa started off on the prohibition was squeezing his luck out that.copper pipe.the day he died
One of my favorite songs of all time. Killer.
So bad ass.
Haven't heard this sound in a long ,thought it was dead, warms my young rock heart to hear it alive and well :-) im getting chills, keep em coming DRB..
2 Words. Mike Cooley.
reddkross1977 Jason Isbell is no punk, either...
Uh yeah.. Ladies and Gents, the most prolific southern rock band. What's that? WSP!? No. Sorry. Alabama boys do it better than Gawgia uns
I jam this tune at the start of all my runs lol.
Ghost Victor6 totally gets me pumped.
i jam this before i go out and pick up old Mexicän women and fuck them.
I remember when I left work on a early lunch break to pick up 'The Dirty South'. I almost had a wreck when I started head bangin to Where the Devil Don't Stay.
DBTs continually evolve. Some work is harder to accept than others...other albums go down as easy as old whisky. But I will always love em.
best song they have by far, god I love it
From Two-Steppin to Twelve-Steppin.
Big Van Walter, anyone?
DAS IST GUT JA *clap clap clapclapclap*
YAAAASSSSSSSSSSS
*RINGKAMPF*
deadly cover art
Dude,you post some great tunes I'ma subscribin'!! You gonna post some'ore?
HELL YEAH ..! ! ! MY FAVORITE BY DRIVE BY TRUCKERS
not many youtube vids with zero dislikes
k J. And 5 years later its only got 13
Great song, helps me remember not to give up my vices.
2 Words- THE SHIT!
fuck yea
Yeah and damn loud- this band especially isobels slide guitar make me want to drink and turn the volume up
No please give us a link- I like to see all adverts with decent rock music backing them up- at least we get to enjoy the music!
Absolutely awesome- I think the only raw attitude I've ever heard in Britain that compares with this is a track by an eighties band called silverwing entitled 'rock and roll are 4 letter words'.
SOUTHERN ROCK ought to make its way to wembly for a really big concert and then split up to tour britain and give us all a bit more spirit!
I wish times were still like this. One focus. You didn't need to worry about all the other bullshit in the world because you trusted people enough to know they wouldnt take advantage of you. Things have changed though, Ill always have my back turned looking for the next shmuch to try and take advantage of me so I can rip there troat out. Rip Bob Marley, Rip Jesus, Rip Tupac. Peace, love, happiness, hookers and blow.
i can listen to it on my phone ...... confusing shit ...
Sorry. Youtube doesn't allow me to turn ON settings option ''Make this video available on mobile phones and TV.''
At least I've tried...
Why is it all of a sudden I can't listen to this song on my iPhone??
I feel like more people need to hear this band
love it there true southern rock ...keppin it alive rock on boys . u keep mekin em an ill keep drinkin an listnin
God Damn!
Damn, glad I listened to this band