COWPIE Country Music Lyrics
earle steve
devils right hand
# Here is this song the way I recall it. I have been playing it for ten years since I last heard it by anyone else so some details may have mutated but It should be close enough: The Devils Right Hand By Steve Earle Key: E [opening riff] [E] About the time my daddy left to fight the big war I saw my first pistol in the [B]general store The general store when I was thirteen I thought it was the finest thing I [E]ever had seen I asked if I could have one someday when I grew up Momma dropped a dozen eggs. She [B]really blew up She really blew up, she didn?t understand Momma said the pistol was the [E]devils right hand [chorus] the [A]devils right hand, the [E]devils [A]right [E]hand [B]momma said the pistol was the [E]devils right hand [repeat opening riff] My very first pistol was a cap and ball colt Shoots like lightning but it [B]loads a might slow Loads a might slow and I soon found out It?ll get you into trouble but it [E]cant get you out So then I went and got myself a colt 45 Called a peacemaker but I [B]never knew why I never knew why, I didn?t understand Momma said the pistol was the [E]devils right hand [chorus] [key change up to F#] [opening riff in F#} [F#]I got into a card game in a Company town Cought a miner cheating so I [C#]shot the dog down I shot the dog down, watched a man fall He never touched his holster never [F#]had a chance to draw The trial was in the morning so they drug me out of bed Asked me how I pleaded not [C#]guilty I said Not guilty I said, you got the wrong man Nothing touched the trigger but the [F#]devils right hand [chorus ] the [B]devils right hand, the [F#]devils [B]right [F#]hand [C#]momma said the pistol was the [F#]devils right hand (the opening riff is doable as a Emajor chord with your pinky picking out the melody: A G# F# E F# E above it. Just slide the whole thing up to an F# bar chord for the key change ?you will have to play an F#7 to free up you pinky for the riff but it sounds ok)
