If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)

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“If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)”
Single by Joe Diffie
from the album A Thousand Winding Roads
Released April 2, 1991
Format CD Single
Genre Country
Length 2:45
Label Epic
Writer(s) Ken Spooner, Kim Williams
Joe Diffie singles chronology
"If You Want Me To"
(1990)
"If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)"
(1991)
"New Way (To Light Up an Old Flame)"
(1991)

"If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)" is a single by American country music singer Joe Diffie that reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart. It was the third single released from his debut album, A Thousand Winding Roads.

[edit] Chart performance

The song debutedat #47 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated April 6, 1991. It charted for 20 weeks on that chart, and peaked at #1 on the country chart dated June 15, 1991, giving Diffie his second Number One single.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1991) Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 1
Preceded by
"Meet in the Middle"
by Diamond Rio
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single by Joe Diffie

June 15, 1991
Succeeded by
"The Thunder Rolls"
by Garth Brooks