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The Silver Tongued Devil and I by Kris Kristofferson.

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Isolation Video #358 The Silver Tongued Devil and I by Kris Kristofferson.

"The Silver Tongued Devil and I" was the title track of Kristofferson's second studio album. He had written most of the material on the album over the course of the preceding years. He shared writing credits with Shel Silverstein on The Taker and with Donnie Frits on Epitaph. The only song he didn't write was Good Christian Soldier which is credited to Billy Joe Shaver & Bobby Bare although Bare's contribution may have been simply introducing Shaver to Kristofferson.
Also on the album is one of my favorite songs, Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) which I've been doing since this album came out in 1971. It's one of the most poignant love songs I've ever heard. The album went gold by 1973. Of note is the fact that he had received word of both Janis Joplin's recording of Bobby McGee and her death the day before he went into the studio.


I took myself down to the Tally-Ho Tavern to buy me a bottle of beer
I sat me down by a tender young maiden whose eyes were as dark as her hair
And as I was searchin' from bottle to bottle for somethin' unfoolish to say
That silver tongued devil just slipped from the shadows and smilingly stole her away
I said hey little girl don't you know he's the devil he's everything that I ain't
Hidin' intentions of evil under the smile of a saint
All he's good for is gettin' in trouble and shifting his share of the blame
And some people swear he's my double and some even say we're the same
But the silver tongued devil's got nothing to lose I'll only live till I die
We take our own chances and pay our own dues the silver tongued devil and I
Like all the fair maidens who've laid down beside him
She knew in her heart that he'd lied
But nothing that I could have said could've saved her
No matter how hard that she tried
Cause she'll offer her soul to the darkness and danger
Of something that she's never known
And open her arms at the smile of a stranger who'll love her and leave her alone
And you know he's the devil...
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