bonzi buddy sings the devil went down to georgia

The Devil continues, ' And if you care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you. Actually, it is common knowledge that Lucifer, the fallen archangel who through his own vanity was cast out of heaven and became known as the Devil, was the chief music minister in Heaven. Photo: TL Gray' I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too…' says the Devil in the song. Another tidbit about this song is this: It was featured in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, and choreographer Pasty Swayze (mother of Dirty Dancing's Patrick) is known to have set the fast tempo. We southern folk from the Appalachia don't hang around when devils show up …well, at least not this Appalachian. And the devil jumped upon a hickory stump and said, 'Boy, let me tell you what.'' I'll tell you what… if the Devil just popped out of nowhere and started talking to me, I doubt he would have gotten three words out before I was out of there.

' When he came upon this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot. He was in a bind, 'cause he was way behind, and he was willin' to make a deal.' My first question was, 'Way behind on what? Collecting souls?' My greatest question was, 'What the heck is he doing in Georgia?' To a young kid having had nightmares for months after watching The Exorcist, the Devil was no simple matter, and I surely didn't like the idea he was roaming around Georgia. The song opens with, ' The Devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal. Faust, by the way, was a popular 16th Century German scholar who was known to have made a deal with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly possessions, and the prime subject of a Rembrandt painting.

Written in Sprechstimme, which is German for 'spoken voice,' lead singer Charlie Daniels begins this Faustian tale about a boy named Johnny. The tune starts out with the very familiar, fast-paced, fiddle-playing music of the traditional square dance common in the Appalachian Mountains.

Photo: TL Gray'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' was written by Charlie Daniels and featured on the Charlie Daniels Band's 1979 Million Mile Reflections LP.

Bonzi buddy sings the devil went down to georgia