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The Pilgrim Chapter 33 is about many including Cash. The opening of "To beat the devil he's talking about a great and wasted friend he run across in the halls of a recording studio and saw he was about a step away from dieing. He then on that recording says he's happy to say he's no longer wasted and got a good woman and he'd like to dedicate this song to John and June who showed me how to beat the devil. It is about him and Cash and even Cash in an interview said so but was shocked that Kris had made it public.

Kris was a janitor at the studio and would show Cash his songs that was before Sunday Morning Coming Down. That would have been late 60's I guess in Cash wilder days.

I can't find that video either but I have seen the interview and it was Cash telling the story. They didn't meet in a bar but it was about him. The Junkie and the Juicehead was one Kris obviously did about himself.

There is or rather used to be on Youtube a longer version of this which has Johnny Cash explaining To Beat The Devil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXirzWc0mM&list=RD8zXirzWc0mM For some reason some of Kristofferson’s videos have been pulled and other ones remain.