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See that stranger coming up the hill
Though you don't recognize him, I know your preacher will
Got a voice like sugar, sugar in your teeth
And he could sing a winning song now
Sing it sweeter than me
Blind your eyes
Steal your tongue
Take it when you're older
But he likes 'em young
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
If you see that stranger
Coming on the track
I can hear your mama just calling you back
Hit you like a fever, fever deep
And I touch you like a thief
And leave your pockets clean
Blind your eyes
Steal your tongue
Get you when you're old now
But he likes 'em young
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Though you don't recognize him, I know your preacher will
Got a voice like sugar, sugar in your teeth
And he could sing a winning song now
Sing it sweeter than me
Blind your eyes
Steal your tongue
Take it when you're older
But he likes 'em young
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
If you see that stranger
Coming on the track
I can hear your mama just calling you back
Hit you like a fever, fever deep
And I touch you like a thief
And leave your pockets clean
Blind your eyes
Steal your tongue
Get you when you're old now
But he likes 'em young
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Oh my, oh my baby
Devil's gonna get you if I don't first
Take my body, take my body and do your worst
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Do Your Worst Lyrics as written by Michael Miley Scott Holiday
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Rival Sons' lead vocalist Jay Buchanan and guitarist Scott Holiday took a writing trip to a remote shack deep in the woods of south Tennessee to come up with songs for their Feral Roots album. This song (Do Your Worst) started with a riff that Holiday came up with during their time there.
The guitarist recalled to ABC Radio that he came up with the idea of setting the amps and everything else out on the porch. Once they cranked up the amps, he came up with "this really dirty, menacing tone, going out over the water, over the entire holler."
While that riff was echoing through the woods, Buchanan took a solitary walk during which he thought up lyrics. The singer eventually came up with some religious imagery that fitted like a glove with Holiday's guitar work: "The song needed to be me, the devil, and then a woman between us," he said.