The night it was cold on the outside and cold on the in
The night it was cold on the inside and out
Sleeping in the pine trees
Trying to find my next meal
With my knife and my machete at my side
The Devil made me do it
The Devil made me sin
The Devil heard me crying
So the Devil took me in
I had to send my daddy to hell because of what
he did to Ma behind the curtain
Then I had to send her off to heaven because I
didn’t want her to be hurting
The light from the fire was all that I could see with
I heard my little sister weeping quiet in the evening
I took her life because I couldn’t bear she saw me do it
My little brother gone to heaven for trying
to keep me from this ruin
I don’t know who knows it
I don’t know who found them
I don’t know which heaven that they will be allowed in
The Devil made me do it
The Devil made me sin
The Devil heard me crying
So the Devil took me in
I’m sleeping in the Pines
To put some distance from our home
I’m thinking the bough is a bed for the night
Sleeping in the pines I can’t get me enough
I’m looking for some rope
and I’m looking for some light
It’s cold down in the needles
I light the cones into a blaze
I want to lie down on this pyre
I want to end all of these days
I finally twisted all these vines into nice thin rope
Wrapped them around my head
and tight around my own throat
Hanging from this tree limb, swinging in the wind
The Devil made me do it
The Devil made me sin
The sticks and stones are burning hot
The heat is in my bones
This tree will turn to ashes
As I sink into the loam
Well, the Devil made me do it
The Devil made me sin
The Devil heard me crying
So the Devil took me in
They are calling out the evil
They are calling out my name
My family’s going to heaven
And I’m headin’ down into Hades
The Devil made me do it
The Devil called my name
The Devil heard me sighing
But there’s no one else to blame