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The Devil's Waiting For You Down At the Old Stlll

from Tear Down the Fences by Alice Gerrard & Kay Justice

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Written by a local songwriter from Galax, Va. Nell Smith. She worked in the furniture factory in Galax, and wrote lots of good songs about life.

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Well I called you to breakfast at half past 8
You’s so drunk you put your nose in your plate
Ain’t that a shape to get yourself in
Gravy drippin’ right off of your chin.

Spilt your coffee all over the floor
There ain’t no use to house clean no more
If some of the neighbors was to drop in
They’d think my kitchen was the old hog pen.

Last summer when I was hoeing corn on the hill
Thought it was to make bread but it went to the still
Better get some cornmeal in the bin
Gonna warp you with a rolling pin.

All these years you said you’d drink no more
I’d like to bust you with a 2 by 4
Yesterday I found a bull’s eye quart
Where you hid it till you needed a snort.

But the wrong one found it and poured it out
And you wanta know where, in the little outhouse
Next time you have to be excused
Just raise the lid and smell the booze.

Now if God should decided to call you away
You’d be bound to fill a drunkard’s grave
Don’t think I’d shed any tears
For I’d be the happiest I’ve been in years
But when Gabriel sounds his trumpet clear
You’d better get away we don’t have drinkin up here
St. Peter will say “go back down the hill
The devil’s waiting for you at the old still,
Yeah, the devil’s waiting for you at the old still.”

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from Tear Down the Fences, released August 7, 2017
Alice Gerrard-vocal, fiddle
Kay Justice-vocal, guitar
Gail Gillespie-banjo

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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