Tying Knots in the Devils Tail > Devil Went Down to Georgia

So Rusty Jiggs punched a hole in his rope

He swang it straight and true

He lassoed it onto the devil's horns

And he's takin' his dallies true

Now Sandy Sam was a reata man

With his gut line coiled up neat

So he shakes her out and he builds him a loop

And he lassoed the Devil's hind feet

They stretched him out, they tailed him down

While the irons was a-gettin' hot

They cropped and swallow-forked his ears

And they branded him up a lot

Well they pruned him up with a dehorning saw

Tied knots in his tail for a joke

Then they rode off and left him there

Necked up to a black-jack oak

So if you're ever up in the Sierry Petes

And you hear one hell of a wail

Know it's that Devil a-bellowin' around

About them knots in his tail