[Verse 1]

Fifty miles north of I-64, beneath the sand and stone

A place no man has ever gone before

Bright eyes that glow at night, but no one ever knows for sure

Where the demon waits, counting up his souls

He'll send you to the grave with a pocket of fool's gold

[Chorus]

I was born in the Devil's Backbone

A man on the run, they cast their stones

Born in sin, I guess that's just the way it goes

Oh, born in the Devil's Backbone

[Verse 2]

Sipping rot gut whiskey with nails as black as coal

I can't escape this valley, who will come ease my soul?

There's blood on these hands, I walk upon that dark shore

Where the demon waits counting up his souls

I'm going to my grave with a pocket of fool's gold

[Chorus]

I was born in the Devil's Backbone

A man on the run, they cast their stones

Born in sin, I guess that's just the way it goes

Oh, born in the Devil's Backbone

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

I was born in the Devil's Backbone

A man on the run, they cast their stones

Born in sin, I guess that's just the way it goes

Oh, born in the Devil's Backbone

[Outro]

Born in the Devil's Backbone

Born in the Devil's Backbone

Born in the Devil's Backbone