I took myself down to the Tally Ho TavernTo buy me a bottle of beerAnd I sat me down by a tender young maidenWhose eyes were as soft as her hairAnd as I was searching from bottle to bottleFor something unfoolish to sayThat silver tongued devil just slipped from the shadowsAnd smilingly stole her awayI said hey, little girl don't you know, he's the devilHe's everything that I ain'tHiding intentions of evilUnder the smile of a saintAll he's good for is gettin' in troubleAnd shifting his share of the blameAnd some people swear he's my doubleAnd some even say we're the sameBut the silver-tongued devil's got nothing to loseAnd I'll only live 'till I dieWe take our own chances, and pay our own duesThe silver tongued devil and ILike all the fair maidens who've laid down beside himShe knew in her heart that he'd liedNothing that I could have said could have saved herNo matter how hard that she tried'Cause she'll offer her soul to the darkness and dangerOf something that she's never knownAnd open her arms at the smile of a strangerWho'll love her and leave her aloneAnd she know's he's the devilHe's everything that I ain'tHiding intentions of evil intentionsUnder the smile of a saintAll he's good for is gettin' in troubleAnd shifting his share of the blameAnd some people swear he's my doubleAnd some even say we're the sameBut the silver-tongued devil's got nothing to loseAnd I'll only live 'till I dieWe take our own chances, and pay our own duesThe silver tongued devil and I
Kristoffer Kristofferson (Brownsville, Texas; 22 de junio de 1936-Hana, Hawái; 28 de septiembre de 2024) fue compositor de música country, actor y cantante estadounidense ilustre por canciones como Me and Bobby McGee, For the Good Times, Sunday Mornin' Comin'…
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