Up Jumped the Devil
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave
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O my o my, what a wretched life I was born on the day that 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? Well up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me O poor heart, I was doomed from the start Doomed to play the villains 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 round the courthouse steps? Nailing my face to the hitching fence Who's that milling round the courthouse steps? Up jumped the Devil and off we 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 safer 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? Well up jumped the Devil, 1, 2, 3 H-h-how lucky we were We hit the cat houses and we sampled their whares We got as drunk as a couple of Czars That night I swallowed my lucky stars Who's that dancing on the jail house roof? Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof Who's that dancing on the jail house roof? Well up jumped the Devil and said, "Here is your man, I got proof" O no, o no don't go, o slow down Joe The righteous path is straight as an arrow Take a walk and you'll find it's too narrow Too narrow for the likes of me And who's that hanging from the gallow tree? His eyes are blocked but he looks like me Now who's that swinging from the gallow tree? Well up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me Down we go Down we go Down we go ...
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Written by: Blixa Bargeld, Kid Powers, Michael Harvey, Nicholas Cave, Roland Wolf, Thomas Wydler
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