Pure Prairie League

Lyrics Pickin' to beat the devil Pure Prairie League

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Pickin' to beat the devil


I make my rounds of the country churches
Playing my guitar for free
My repertoire is one hundred ninety
Songs to God's glory

[Chorus:]
Now I'm pickin' to beat the devil
And you know he's on my tail
But the Lord is in my fingers
And He won't let me fail

I found myself in a roadside barroom
I was drinking my time away
Kentucky woman and Tennessee whiskey
It's gonna be hell to pay

A worn out chevy and a beat up Martin is all I'll ever own
My worthless life is dedicated to bringing God's children home

[Chorus]

Fourteen songs and a temperance sermon that's what a good meal buys
For a little extra there's a guitar solo called Reward In The Sky

[Chorus]

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The lyrics PICKIN' TO BEAT THE DEVIL of PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE is also present in the album Two lane highway (1975)

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Biografia

Pure Prairie League is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, with Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. The band's name was chosen in 1970 by McGrail after a 19th century temperance union mentioned in the 1939 film Dodge City. The band has had a long run, active from the 1970s through the late 1980s and was revived in the late 1990s for a time, then again in 2004. Some of their most representative songs include "Amie", "Let Me Love You Tonight" and "Bustin' Out".

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