| I split out of Reno | 
| I was trailed by twenty hounds | 
| Didn’t get to sleep last night | 
| 'Till the morning came around | 
| Still out front, gonna take my time | 
| A friend of the devil is a friend of mine | 
| If I get home before daylight | 
| I just might get some sleep tonight | 
| I ran down to the levee | 
| But the devil caught me there | 
| He took my twenty dollar bill | 
| And he vanished into air | 
| Still out front, gonna take my time | 
| A friend of the devil is a friend of mine | 
| If I get home before daylight | 
| I just might get some sleep tonight | 
| Got two reasons | 
| Why I cry away each lonely night | 
| The first one’s named sweet Emily | 
| And she’s my hearts delight | 
| The second one is prison, babe | 
| The sheriff’s on my trail | 
| And if he catches up with me | 
| I’ll spend my life in jail | 
| I spent the night in Utah | 
| In a cave up in the hills | 
| Trying to find the devil | 
| But I doubt I ever will | 
| Still out front, gonna take my time | 
| A friend of the devil is a friend of mine | 
| If I get home before daylight | 
| I just might get some sleep tonight | 
| Got two reasons | 
| Why I cry away each lonely night | 
| The first one’s named sweet Emily | 
| And she’s my hearts delight | 
| The second one is prison, babe | 
| The sheriff’s on my trail | 
| And if he catches up with me | 
| I’ll spend my life in jail | 
| Got a wife in Chino, babe | 
| And and one’s in Cherokee | 
| The first one says she’s got my child | 
| But it don’t look like me | 
| Still out front, gonna take my time | 
| A friend of the devil is a friend of mine | 
| If I get home before daylight | 
| I just might get some sleep tonight |