The Devil Came Down to Georgia

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 The Devil Came to Georgia was a popular song when I was a kid - I'm not sure when it came out, exactly, maybe the early eighties. I remember it because A) it was a catchy song with two cool instrumentals in it, and B) had a good narrative story in it and C) it was about the ONLY current song I remember my father, the opera stick-in-the-mud, ever singing along to when it came onto the radio!

I just discovered, many years late, of course, that the song had a sequel called The Devil Comes Back to Georgia, wherein after ten years, with Johnny's win on the fiddle just gnawing away at him, comes back to challenge him again.

I can't find the sequel song on iTunes, of course. Does anyone remember hearing it?

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I remember the original as "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," if it's the one where the Devil bets a fiddle of gold against Johnny's soul on who the best fiddler is.

I did not know there was a sequel! I hope Johnny squared old son's butt away.