Devil I Know
By Jimmy Buffett
Written by Jimmy Buffett & Mac McAnally 
Album: Life on the Flip Side (2020)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
9/26/2020

Requested by: islandboy7777 on 9/14/2020

Capo 2

G
Three in the morning came without a warning
C                           G
Wound up with some old buccaneers
        C                             G
Tellin' lies about the time I won the Nobel Prize
D                        G
Guess who bought all the beers

G
Well, you'd think I'd have tamed my old dragons by now
     C                         G
I've always tried to be a good scout
    C                       G
But every now and then they come swoopin' in
         D                      G
Saying, "Bubba, it's time to go out"

 

Chorus
         C                    G
Now it's fun to wake up in a strange chateau
      D                        G
After racing 'round Paris in a Deux Chevaux
   C                      G               Em
My wingman's crashing but I'm not flying solo
       C         G               D       G
'Cause he traded places with the devil I know
F     F# G     F     F# G
Devil I  know, devil I  know

 
Well, life can be confusing but things need excusin'
To separate the turns from the twists
If I had a Richter scale for spouting forked tales
We'd all be high on that s**t list

Well, the hitch to living hard is when you drop your guard
And wind up in a headline or a cell
Then compromise, or worse, apologize
Welcome to the world of sinkin' spells

 

Chorus 2:
Messing with my mind was fun at the time
Tossing to and fro in a tricky undertow
Deviants and derelicts, lurking high and low
Ridin' shotgun with the devil I know
Devil I  know, devil I  know


Bridge:
C           D                 G
There were times, there were places
   D               G
We played near and far
         Bm         Em         D    C     G
From the old Anchor Inn to the Suez Canal bar
         Bm           Em
From the Kraken to Manhattan
Bm                     Em
???? Le Select ?to Old Saigon
A
Mojitos in Havana
C              D
Timbuktu 'til dawn

 
Three in the mornin', feral cats are yawnin'
Full moon sinking in the bay
Spoonbills in flight, oh, what a sight
As I sip on my café au lait

Well, the birds got me thinkin' 'bout going day drinkin'
A hall pass to be the old me
Don't need hops and barley to throw a little party
Señorita, una mas iced tea

 
Chorus 3:
Hell, it's fun to go fishing on a new slack tide
Wake up living life on the flip side
Them dragons ain't gone, but they're fading like an old tattoo
Lots of mystery in the history of the devils I knew
Devils I knew, devils I knew