Every once in awhile I take the escalator up from [bad word] .
Try and find me an earthly girl that I think is swell. 
Then one afternoon I saw this sweet thing named Susy P. 
I went up to talk with her but she wasn’t sweating me. 

Oh, the Devil won’t be dancing tonight. 
Instead he hangs his head and cries. 
She might have played that angel hard. 
But the Devil he done shown all his hards. 
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Came back later and I politely knocked on her door. 
Mister I don’t want you on my property, Don’t want [bad word] around here no More. 
I [bad word] on girl what’s the matter with you? What are you Deaf, Dumb or Blind? 
She said, My Pappy told me long ago not to go messing round with your kind.

Oh, the Devil won’t be dancing tonight. 
Instead he hangs his head and cries. 
She might have played that angel hard. 
But the Devil he done shown all his hards.
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I said Susy [bad word] on Girl. Won’t you bare my Kin?
Oh Devil, you don’t feel me none. I know that bedding with you’s a sin.
She’s the only girl that I ever met who could see right through my façade
Instead of standing here chatting with me, She’d rather be talking to the man she calls God.

Oh, the Devil won’t be dancing tonight. 
Instead he hangs his head and cries. 
She might have played that angel hard. 
But the Devil he done shown all his hards.
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You Gotta Know when to Hold em. 
You Gotta Know when to Fold em. 
You might think she treated him hard. 
But the Devil he done played his last card.

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