Up Jumped the Devil
Meschiya Lake, Søren Siegumfeldt's String Swing
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O My O My What a wretched life I was born on the day my poor mama died I was cut from her belly With a stanley knife My Daddy did a jig With the drunk midwife Who's that yonder all in flames Dragging behind him a sack of chains Who's that yonder all in flames Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me O poor heart I was doomed from the start I was doomed to play The villain's part I was the baddest Johnny In the apple cart My blood was blacker Than the chambers of a dead nun's heart Who's that milling on the courthouse steps Nailing my face to the hitching fence Who's that milling on the courthouse steps Up jumped the Devil and off he crept O no O no Where could I go With my hump of trouble And my sack of woe To the digs and the deserts of Mexico Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope Who's that yonder laughing at me Like I was the brunt of some hilarity Who's that yonder laughing at me Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3 O no O no don't go slow The righteous part is Straight as an arrow Take a walk And youll find it too narrow Too narrow for the likes of me Who's that hanging from the gallows tree His eyes are hollow but he looks like me Who's that hanging from the gallows tree Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me Down we go Down we go Down we go Down we go Down we go Down we go Down, down, down, down, down Down
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Written by: Blixa Bargeld, Kid Powers, Michael Harvey, Nicholas Cave, Roland Wolf, Thomas Wydler
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