Angry Johnny And The Killbillies - Devil’s Run lyrics

He was due at 7: 30 but he never made it home
She stayed up all night long
Staring at that telephone
The sun was already rising when
She finally gets the call
His rig went off the edge at Devil's Run

He was comin' 'round the mountain
Haulin' 20 tons of grain
He might of lost his brakes some say
It might have been the rain
Trailed off that hip and down
400 feet of hell
Another soul is lost at Devil's Run

Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Skid marks tell the story of our Highway 31
Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run
11 miles of highway down a suicidal grade
Lost count of the orphans and
Widows that it's made
Goin' round this mountain's gonna
Waste an extra day
Just wonderin' through these hills
Of Devil's Run

At the bottom of that hip lies
A twisted pile of steel
Solid rusted coffins used to
Roll on 18 wheels
Ain't no way to raise 'em so
They stay just as they lay
In memory of them men from Devil's Run

Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Skid marks tell the story of our Highway 31
Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run

If you don't respect the mountain
You're nothin' but a fool
And the day that you'll meet Satan
You'll be bleeding diesel fuel
Your children'll ask your widow, "Mama
Where has Daddy gone?"
Say, "He never made it
Back from Devil's Run"

Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Skid marks tell the story of our Highway 31
Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run

Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Skid marks tell the story of our Highway 31
Devil's Run, Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run
Say a prayer before you
Head down Devil's Run