The Devil I Know chords by Jimmy Buffett

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
G G A G


Verse 1:
G
Three in the morning came without a warning
C               G
Wound up with some old buccaneers
     C              G
Tellin' lies about the time I won the Nobel Prize
D            G
Guess who bought all the beers

G
Well, you'd think I'd have tamed my old dragons by now
C                G
I've always tried to be a good scout
   C            G
But every now and then they come swoopin' in
     D           G
Saying, "Bubba, it's time to go out"


Chorus:
     C          G
Now it's fun to wake up in a strange chateau
    D            G
After racing 'round Paris in a Deux Chevaux
  C           G        Em
My wingman's crashing but I'm not flying solo
    C         G       D
'Cause he traded places with the devil I know

F    G   F    G
Devil I know, devil I know


Verse 2:
G
Well, life can be confusing but things need excusin'
  C              G
To separate the turns from the twists
   C            G
If I had a Richter scale for spouting forked tales
   D             G
We'd all be high on that shit list

G
Well, the hitch to living hard is when you drop your guard
     C           G
And wind up in a headline or a cell
   C           G
Then compromise, or worse, apologize
 D                G
Welcome to the world of sinkin' spells


Chorus:
C             G
Messing with my mind was fun at the time
D            G
Tossing to and fro in a tricky undertow
C            G        Em
Deviants and derelicts, lurking high and low
C            D    G
Ridin' shotgun with the devil I know

F    G   F    G
Devil I know, devil I know
G
Let's go ridin', devil


Solo:
C  C  C  G C
C  C  C  G C


Bridge:
C      D         G
There were times, there were places
  D        G
We played near and far
     Bm     Em           G
From the old Anchor Inn to the Suez Canal bar
     Bm      E
From the Kraken to Manhattan

Bm          E
Le Select to Old Saigon
A
Mojitos in Havana
C       D
Timbuktu 'til dawn


Verse 3:
G
Three in the mornin', feral cats are yawnin'
C            G
Full moon sinking in the bay
   C          G
Spoonbills in flight, oh, what a sight
   D         G
As I sip on my café au lait

G
Well, the birds got me thinkin' 'bout going day drinkin'
  C           G
A hall pass to be the old me
    C             G
Don't need hops and barley to throw a little party
   D         G
Señorita, una mas iced tea


Chorus:
      C           G
Hell, it's fun to go fishing on a new slack tide
D            G
Wake up living life on the flip side
   C                G          Em
Them dragons ain't gone, but they're fading like an old tattoo
     C       G       D    G
Lots of mystery in the history of the devils I knew

F    G   F    G
Devils I knew, devils I knew