Dirty Red's got his pockets full of them things Standing on a corner in Holly Springs They busted Dirty Red in Hickory Flat, y'all Old Dirty is a soldier, Red ain't no rat If you raise the devil It can't keep the devil down And now I've found The starry crown If you raise the devil It can't keep the devil down Don't look him in the eye The devil is alive Them things got me snapping like a fighting dog Drinking gun powder from a rotten log Old habits die hard, I'm damn sure stuck in my way It's the nature of the beast that one of these days I'm a gonna raise the devil It can't keep the devil down If you've found The starry crown And you raise a devil It can't keep the devil down Don't look him in the eye The devil is alive If you raise the devil It can't keep the devil down And now I've found The starry crown If you raise the devil It can't keep the devil down Don't look him in the eye The devil is alive