The Highwaymen - The Devil's Right Hand lyrics

[The Highwaymen - The Devil's Right Hand lyrics]

About the time my daddy left
To fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store
The general store, when I was thirteen
Thought it was the finest thing
I ever had seen

I asked if I could have one
Some day when I grew up
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up
She really blew up and I didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

The devil's right hand
The devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Shoots like lighting but it


Loads a-might slow
Loads a-might slow and soon I found out
It can get you into trouble but
It can't get you out

So then I went and bought myself a Colt 45
Called a "peacemaker, " but I never knew why
I never knew why, I didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

The devil's right hand
The devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

The devil's right hand
The devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

I got into a card game in a Cumberland town
Caught a miner cheating and I
Shot the dog down

Shot the dog down, watched the man fall
Never touched his holster never had
A chance to draw

The trial was in the morning and
They drug me out of bed
Asked me how I pleaded, "Not guilty" I said
"Not guilty" I said
"you've got the wrong man"
Nothing touched the trigger but
The devil's right hand

The devil's right hand
The devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

Mama said the pistol is
The devil's right hand

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