Dark Angel Chords

[Verse 1]
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I was born in Carolina, I was raised back in the pines
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I left home as a young man, my fortune for to find
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I stopped down in New Orleans where I gambled for a spell
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Till one night they caught me cheatin’, and they hauled me off to jail
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When I left the jail they warned me not to gamble anymore
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So I took to robbin’ people out behind the late night bars
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Then one night the sheriff caught me and he hauled me off again
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And I spent three years in prison breakin’ rocks with desperate men
 
[Chorus]
G             D            C                 Em
Oh dark angel ridin’ high, I can see through you
Em                             D                                     Em
You learned your tricks by the river sticks where the devil gets his dew
 
[Verse 2]
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When I got out of that prison, the warden he did say
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Son you better seek salvation and change your rowdy ways
     G           D          C                 Em
So I went to a revival in hopes to change my life
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And the preacher spoke of judgment and he talked of sacrifice
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He raved of firing brimstone and God’s eternal wrath
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And he spoke of hopeless torment for those who leave the path
       G                 D            C              Em
But he promised sweet salvation from satan’s fiery fate
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For those who help god’s servants, then he passed around the plate
 
[Chorus]
G             D            C                 Em
Oh dark angel ridin’ high, I can see through you
Em                             D                                     Em
You learned your tricks by the river sticks where the devil gets his dew
 
[Verse 3]
Em                             D                            Em
Well my life had changed that evening by the lesson I was shown
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And I found the way of living that I’ve searched for all along
      G              D              C                 Em
I’ve cheated men at poker and I’ve held them up for gold
  Em                D                                       Em
But now I rob them with the bible and a chance to buy their soul
 
[Chorus]
G             D            C                 Em
Oh dark angel ridin’ high, I can see through you
Em                             D                                     Em
You learned your tricks by the river sticks where the devil gets his dew
G             D            C                 Em
Oh dark angel ridin’ high, I can see through you
Em                             D                                     Em
You learned your tricks by the river sticks where the devil gets his dew
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