Bob Seger

Songwriter: Steve Earle

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
About the time my Daddy left to fight the big war
Saw my first pistol in a general store
In the general store, when I was thirteen
I thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen
So l asked if I could have one someday when I grew up
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up
She really blew up, she didn't understand
Mama said the pistol was the devil's right hand

[Chorus]
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol was the devil's right hand

[Verse 2]
My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Shoot as fast as lightnin' but it loads a mite slow
Loads a mite slow and soon I found out
It will get you into trouble but it can't get you out
'Bout a year later got a Colt 45
Called a Peacemaker but I never knew why
I never knew why, I didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

[Chorus]
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol was the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol was the devil's right hand

[Verse 3]
Got into a card game in a Cumberland town
Caught a miner cheatin', so I shot the dog down
Shot the dog down, watched the man fall
Never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw
Trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
Asked me how I pleaded, not guilty I said
Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man
Nothing touched the pistol but the devil's right hand

[Chorus]
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol was the devil's right hand

[Outro]
Oh yeah
Oh
Devil's right hand
Devil's right hand

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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