Originally Posted by
mymojo
Food for thought: In "The Devil went down to Georgia" the Devil actually wins. Johnny gives in to greed to get a fiddle of Gold and then gives in to pride by announcing hes the best who's ever been. Since the Devil doesnt care about gold, he never even bet anything of value to him. Johnny - and you - fell for it hook, line & sinker.
I grew up with that song, and HOW DO YOU 'KNOW' Johnny competed for the gold fiddle, and NOT just to shut the devil up? And save the dogmatic views on pride; the kind of pride you're referring to is arrogance (which is characterized by bragging), and it's NOT -- if you can back it up. Then it becomes fact.
See now? You all sucked ME in, too -- one MORE person who put WAY too much serious thought into an old country song.