Steve Earle - Devils Right Hand

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’bout the time my Daddy left to fight the big war
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i saw my first pistol in the general store
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in the general store , i was thirteen
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i thought it was the finest thing i ever had seen
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asked if i could have it someday when i grew up
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mama dropped a dozen eggs and really blew up
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yeah she really blew up , i didn’t understand
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mama said the pistol is the devil’s right hand

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the devil’s right hand
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the devil’s right hand
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mama said the pistol is the devil’s right hand .

my very first pistol was a cap and ball colt .
shoot as fast as lightnin’ but she’d load a might slow .
load a might slow . i soon found out
it’ll get you into trouble , but it can’t get you out .
so then i went and bought myself a colt 45 .
it was called a peacemaker , but i never knew why .
never knew why , i didn’t understand .
mama says the pistol is the devil’s right hand .

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well i got into a card game in a company town
caught a miner cheatin’ and i shot the dog down
i shot the dog down , i watched the man fall
never touched his holster , never had a chance to draw
the trial was in the morning and they drug me outta bed
they asked me how i pleaded , “not guilty , ” i said
not guilty i said , you got the wrong man
nothin’ touched the trigger but the devil’s right hand

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