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"Friend of the Devil" is a song by the Grateful Dead and recorded as the second track of the Dead's 1970 album American Beauty. The music was written by Jerry Garcia and John Dawson and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. Like most of American Beauty, the song is largely acoustic. It opens with Garcia playing a descending G major scale in the bass register.
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