T.G. Sheppard – Devil In The Bottle, is a song written by Bobby David and recorded by American country music artist T. G. Sheppard (not counting his two earlier non-country singles issued as by “Brian Stacy”). It was released in October 1974 as his debut single and the first from his album T. G. Sheppard, and reached number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single spent a single week at number one and a total of ten weeks on the chart. The single was released on the Melodyland Label, a country music, Motown subsidiary.
T.G. Sheppard – Devil In The Bottle
From the album T. G. Sheppard
B-side “Rollin’ with the Flow”
Released October 1974
Genre Country
Length 2:49
Label Melodyland
Songwriter(s) Bobby David
Producer(s) Jack Gilmer, T. G. Sheppard
COUNTRYPEDIA
T.G. Sheppard – Devil In The Bottle Lyrics
I come home late at night with my shoes in my hands
Stumble in the back door being quite as I can
And I know she there in bed cold and all alone
And she’s crying cause I’m breaking up our home
And she knows (and she knows) the hell I’m going through
In this world (in this world) inside my head
There’s a devil (there’s a devil) in a bottle
And he wants to see me dead
I fall into her arms and she helps me with my clothes
Yeah she stays on with me cause she really knows
Cause I’m trying lord to find my freedom
By escaping to the only freedom I’ve ever known
And she knows (and she knows) the hell I’m going through
In this world (in this world) inside my head
There’s a devil (there’s a devil) in a bottle
And he wants to see me dead
There’s a devil (there’s a devil) in a bottle (in the bottle)
And he wants (and he wants) to see me dead
And it’s killing her to see me die this way
GENIUS
