Run devil run, the angels having fun

Making winners out of sinners, better leave before it's done


When he gets through, he'll be coming after you


Listen what I'm saying to you, run, run devil run




By a swamp in Alabama in the cold, in the damp


Sittin' reading by the light of a kerosene lamp

Lives a holly roller with a mission on her mind


Got to spread the word to anybody she can find


You can hear her screaming any time in night or day

This is what she says to keep the demons away





Run devil run, the angels having fun

Making winners out of sinners, better leave before it's done


When he gets through, he'll be coming after you


Listen what I'm saying to you, run, run devil run




Her brother and her sister said that she brought them down


Steppin' on the bus that was heading to town

There they started drinking, they got into a fight


The sheriff introduced them to the jail house for a night


When the holy roller came to town to pay the bail

This is what she sang as she was leaving the jail





Run devil run, the angels having fun

Making winners out of sinners, better leave before it's done


When he gets through, he'll be coming after you


Listen what I'm saying to you, run, run devil run, yeah




Well, by the middle of the summer they were back in the shack


Picking cotton for a livin', keep 'em on the right track

Visiting the neighbors, trying to spread the good news


Singing gospel music with a hint of the blues


All of them determined to deliver the goods

Now you, you hear the music comin' out on the woods





Run devil run, the angel having fun

Making winners out of sinners, better leave before it's done


When he gets through, he'll be coming after you

Listen what I'm saying to you, run, run devil run


Ah, you'd better run, run devil run, you better run, run devil run