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Devil Town
Daniel Johnston
"1990" (1993), Discovered Covered (2004)

 

I was living in a Devil Town

Didn't know it was a Devil Town

Oh, Lord, it really brings me down
About the Devil Town


And all my friend were vampires
Didn't know they were vampires
Turns out I was a vampire myself
In the Devil Town

 

I was living in a Devil Town

Didn't know it was a Devil Town

Oh Lord it really brings me down
About the Devil Town


DEVIL TOWN - chords / tabs
Daniel Johnston "1990"

(3 versions follow)

 

VERSION 1
Capo on 4th fret
Intro: C  C/G  C  F  C/g    (3x)

C     C/G  C       F     C/g
I was living in a devil town
C        C/G   C        F     C/g
I didn't know it was a devil town
C  C/G       C      F        C/g        
Oh lord it really brings me down about the devil town

C   C/G         C    F    C/g  
All my friends were vampires
C    C/G        C       F   C/g 
I didn't know they were vampires
C        C/G  C          F       C/g
It turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town

CHORDS:   C -    x32010
          C/G  - x32013
          F   -  xx3211
          C/g -  x3203x

 

VERSION 2

C C/G C F

I was living in a devil town

C C/G C F

Didn't know it was a devil town

etc.

 

I don't know if C/G is the chord's name but it is:

E---3

B---1

G---0

D---2

A---3

E---X

VERSION 3

Devil Town

Bright Eyes version
Thanks to Zack

 

He plays all of these as bar chords (not necessary, but gives the nice scraping sound when sliding between the F and Bb chords). “X” indicates a muted (not sounding) string.

 

F        1-3-3-2-1-1

Bb      6-8-8-7-6-6

Dm     X-5-7-7-6-5

G        3-5-5-4-3-3

C        X-3-5-5-5-3

  

  F                    Bb

|  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |  repeat throughout verse

 

I was living in a devil town

I didn’t know it was a devil town

Oh Lord it really brings me down

About the devil town

 

All my friends were vampires

Didn’t know they were vampires

Turns out I was a vampire myself

In the devil town

 

Instrumental section

  Dm                 F                    Dm                F

|  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |

 

  Bb                   F                   G                  C

|  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |  1   2   3   4  |

 

The next verse uses the same chords as the instrumental section

 

All my friends were vampires

Didn’t know they were vampires

Turns out I was a vampire myself

In the devil town

 

This verse uses the same F – Bb progression as the first verse

 

I was living in a devil town

I didn’t know it was a devil town

Oh Lord it really brings me down

about the devil town