Biography:
Joe Diffie (December 28, 1958 – March 29, 2020) was an American country musician. Between 1990 and 2004, he had 35 singles that charted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones, and Marty Stuart.
Raised in Velma, Oklahoma, Diffie worked in a foundry while playing local nightclubs in Oklahoma and moved to Nashville in 1986 to work for Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Other songs:
- A Night To Rember
- A Night To Remember
- Aint That Bad Enough
- Better Off Gone
- Bigger Than The Beatles
- Coolest Fool In Town
- Devil Danced Empty Pockets
- Devil Danced In Empty Pockets
- Down In A Ditch
- Girl Riding Shotgun
- Good Brown Gravy
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Home
- Honky Tonk Attitude
- Hurt Me All The Time
- I Aint Leavin Til Shes Gone
- I Can Walk The Line If It Aint Too Straight
- Id Like To Have A Problem Like That
- If You Want Me To
- Its Always Something
- John Deere Green
- Juniors In Love
- Leroy The Redneck Reindeer
- My Give A Damns Busted
- My Hearts In Over My Head
- New Way To Light Up An Old Flame
- Pickup Man
- Praise And Alleluia To The Savior
- Prop Me Up Beside The Juke Box When I Die
- Ships That Dont Come In
- Show Me A Woman
- So Help Me Girl
- Tears In The Rain
- That Road Not Taken
- The Cows Came Home
- The Grandpa That I Know
- The More You Drink The Better I Look
- There Goes The Neighborhood
- Third Rock From The Sun
- Tougher Than Nails
- What About Denver
- Wrap Me In Your Love
- You Cant Go Home
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:56:23 -0600
From: Ken Keefover
Subject: Way Too Much Time On My Hands, Again...
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If The Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)
Written by Kim Williams & Ken Spooner.
c1989 Cross Keys Pub. & Texas Wedge Music.
Performed by Joe Diffie.
C7: 032310 A7: x02020 G/D: 320033 C#dim: 002323
D7: xx0212 A/C#: 043330 B7/D#: 021202 G/B: x20003
Em: 022000 B7: 021202 G#dim: xx0101 G6: 3x0000
Verse 1:
C7 G
Diablo motors had a hell of a sale, downtown yesterday,
C7 A7 D
Word got around, no money down, take years and years to pay.
C7 G
When I got there the lot was bare, but the salesman said hold on.
C7 C#dim G/D B7/D# E A7 D7 G
For a little cash, I gotta two-tone Nash out behind the barn.
Chorus
G A7
If the Devil danced in empty pockets, he'd have a ball in mine.
D G6 G#dim Am
With a nine foot grand, a ten piece band and a twelve girl chorus line.
D G A
I'd raise some loot in a three piece suit, give 'em one dance for a dime,
G/B C A/C# G/D B/D# E7 A D7 G
If the Devil Danced in empty pockets, he'd have a ball in mine.
Verse 2:
C7 G
Well he said friend it ain't the end let's see what I can do.
C7 A7 D
If you own a home, I've got a loan, tailor made for you.
C7 G
Then above the racket a voice in my jacket said, "I'll tote the note."
C7 C#dim G/D B7/D# E A7 D7 G
The devil made me do it, talked me in to it, and that was all she wrote.
Chorus
Bridge
Em B7 Em
They say debt is a bottomless pit where the devil likes to play.
A7 D
I'd sell my soul to get out of this hole, but there'd be hell to pay.
Chorus
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:56:23 -0600
From: Ken Keefover
Subject: Way Too Much Time On My Hands, Again...
X-Sender: [email protected]
Resent-to: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
MIME-version: 1.0
If The Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)
Written by Kim Williams & Ken Spooner.
c1989 Cross Keys Pub. & Texas Wedge Music.
Performed by Joe Diffie.
C7: 032310 A7: x02020 G/D: 320033 C#dim: 002323
D7: xx0212 A/C#: 043330 B7/D#: 021202 G/B: x20003
Em: 022000 B7: 021202 G#dim: xx0101 G6: 3x0000
Verse 1:
C7 G
Diablo motors had a hell of a sale, downtown yesterday,
C7 A7 D
Word got around, no money down, take years and years to pay.
C7 G
When I got there the lot was bare, but the salesman said hold on.
C7 C#dim G/D B7/D# E A7 D7 G
For a little cash, I gotta two-tone Nash out behind the barn.
Chorus
G A7
If the Devil danced in empty pockets, he'd have a ball in mine.
D G6 G#dim Am
With a nine foot grand, a ten piece band and a twelve girl chorus line.
D G A
I'd raise some loot in a three piece suit, give 'em one dance for a dime,
G/B C A/C# G/D B/D# E7 A D7 G
If the Devil Danced in empty pockets, he'd have a ball in mine.
Verse 2:
C7 G
Well he said friend it ain't the end let's see what I can do.
C7 A7 D
If you own a home, I've got a loan, tailor made for you.
C7 G
Then above the racket a voice in my jacket said, "I'll tote the note."
C7 C#dim G/D B7/D# E A7 D7 G
The devil made me do it, talked me in to it, and that was all she wrote.
Chorus
Bridge
Em B7 Em
They say debt is a bottomless pit where the devil likes to play.
A7 D
I'd sell my soul to get out of this hole, but there'd be hell to pay.
Chorus
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