Tying Knots In The Devil's Tail Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Well, it was [D]way high up in the Sierry Petes
Where the yellow pines grow [A]tall
Rusty Diggs and Sandy Sam
Had a round-up camp last [D]fall
They had their ponies and their running irons
And maybe a dog or [G]two
And they [A]'lowed they'd brand
every lop-eared calf
That came within their [D]view

[Verse 2]
Well [D]many a lop-eared dogie
If he didn't hush up by [A]day
Had his long ears whittled
and his old hide scorched
In a most artistic [D]way
Then says Rusty Diggs to Sandy Sam
As he throwed his seago [G]down
"I'm [A]tired of cowbiography
"And I figures I'll go to [D]town"

[Interlude 1]
[D][A][D]

[Verse 3]
They [D]starts her in at the Kentucky Bar
At the head of the Whisky [A]Row
And they ends her up at the Depot House
And forty drinks be[D]low
Then he winds her up
and they turns her 'round
And they goes her the other [G]way
[A]Tell you the Lord-forsaken truth
Them boys got drunk that [D]day

[Verse 4]
Well, [D]they was a-headin' back to camp
And a-packin' a mighty good [A]load
Who should they meet but the Devil himself
Come prancin' down the [D]road?
And the Devil he said, "You cowboy skunks
"You better go hunt your [G]hole
"'Cause [A]I've come up from the Hell's rim rock
"To gather in your [D]souls"
Says [D]Rusty Jiggs to the Devil
"Though I know we're [A]tight
"No devil ever took no cowpunch
"Without one kind of a [D]fight"

[Interlude 2]
[D][A][D]

[Verse 5]
So [D]Rusty Jiggs punched a hole in his rope
He swang it straight and [A]true
He lassoed it onto the devil's horns
And he's takin' his dallies [D]true
Now Sandy Sam was a reata man
With his gut line coiled up [G]neat
So he [A]shakes her out out
and he builds him a loop
And he lassoed the Devil's hind [D]feet

[Verse 6]
They [D]stretched him out, they tailed him down
While the irons was a-gettin' [A]hot
They cropped and swallow-forked his ears
And they branded him up a [D]lot
Well they pruned him up with a dehorning saw
Tied knots in his tail for a [G]joke
[A]Then they rode off and left him there
Necked up to a black-jack [D]oak

[Outro 1]
So if [D]you're ever up in the Sierry Petes
And you hear one hell of a [A]wail
Know it's that Devil a-bellowin' 'round
About them knots in his [D]tail
You'll [A]know it's that Devil a-bellowin' around
About them knots in his [D]tail
[D]