Keep The Devil Down

Dirty Red's got his pockets full of them things

Standing on a corner in Holly Springs

They busted Dirty Red in Hickory Flat, y'all

Old Dirty is a soldier, Red ain't no rat

If you raise the devil

It can't keep the devil down

And now I've found

The starry crown

If you raise the devil

It can't keep the devil down

Don't look him in the eye

The devil is alive

Them things got me snapping like a fighting dog

Drinking gun powder from a rotten log

Old habits die hard, I'm damn sure stuck in my way

It's the nature of the beast that one of these days

I'm a gonna raise the devil

It can't keep the devil down

If you've found

The starry crown

And you raise a devil

It can't keep the devil down

Don't look him in the eye

The devil is alive

If you raise the devil

It can't keep the devil down

And now I've found

The starry crown

If you raise the devil

It can't keep the devil down

Don't look him in the eye

The devil is alive