Silver Tongued Devil - Live 1981

And I took myself down to the Tally Ho Tavern to buy me a bottle of beer

I sat me down by a tender young maiden whose eyes were as soft as her hair

As I was searchin' from bottle to bottle for somethin' unfoolish to say

That silver-tongued devil just slipped from the shadows and smilingly stoled her away

I said, "Hey, little girl

Don't you know he's the devil?"

He's everything that I ain't

Hiding intentions of evil intentions under the smile of a saint

All he's good for is getting in troublе

And shiftin' his share of the blame

And somе people swear he's my double

And some even say we're the same

But the silver-tongued devil's got nothing to lose

I'll only live 'til I die

We take our own chances and pay our own dues

I say, we pay our own dues, I take, uh

He takes most of the chances and I still pay most of the dues

We don't do it in the same place anymore

'Cause I quit drinking, about five years ago and that rascal, huh

He doesn't like my Gatorade

But it don't matter, 'cause no matter where he is tonight

If he's out drinking all the tequila in Texas with Willie Nelson

I don't care 'cause it's not as good as what's goin' down right here, right now

The silver-tongued devil and I