Slaid Cleaves - Devil's Lullaby

When the shrimpers hit town with their white boots on
Drinking all their pay before they make it home, so were staying
Diggy-liggy-li, diggy-liggy-lo
That's the song you'd better know if you're playing
The women whistle and the fiddles whine
Sounds like the Devil's lullaby

Rattle snake race I found myself in
Landlady notified my next of kin and I'm rambling
Left a crying pregnant teenage bride
Grandmother kneeling by her side, they were praying
San Patricio, hear their cry
I'm playing the Devil's lullaby

I sang the song when I was young
About the power in the blood
But Jesus, He can't save me, I'm crucified
The Devil's lullaby

So I sang the songs of a rose tattoo
A sailor's heart with a girl untrue under the street lamp
All the skirt chasing and freebasing
How the scarlet flows where she sliced me good with a razor
Te sirens wail and church bells chime
Playing me the Devil's lullaby
The women whistle and the fiddles whine
Sounds like the Devil's lullaby