Up Jumped The Devil lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Up Jumped The Devil
 


O My O My
What a wretched life
I was born
on the day
That my poor mother died
I was
cut from her belly
With a stanley knife
My
daddy did a jig
With the drunk
midwife

Who's that younder all in
flames
Dragging behind him a sack of
chains
Who's that younder all in flames
Up
jumped the Devil and he staked his claim

O
poor heart
I was doomed from the
start
Doomed to play
The villians part
I
was the baddest Johnny
In the apple cart
My
blood was blacker
Than the 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 deserts of Mexico
Where
my neck was safe from the lynching
rope

Who's that younder laughing at
me
Like I was the brunt of some
hilarity
Who's that younder laughing at
me
Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3

Ha-Ha Ha
Ha
How lucky we were
We hit the
cathouse
And sampled their whares
We got as
drunk
As a couple of Czars
One night I spat
out
My lucky stars

Who's that dancing
on the jailhouse roof
Stamping on the ramping
with a cloven hoof
Who's that dancing on the
jailhouse roof
Up jumped the Devil and said
"Here is your man and I got a proof"

O no
don't go O no
O slow down Joe
The righteous
part
I straight as an arrow
Take a
walk
And you'll find it too narrow
Too
narrow for the likes of me

Who's that
hanging from the gallow tree
His eyes are
hollow but he looks like me
Who's that
swinging from the gallow tree
Up jumped the
Devil and took my soul from me

Down we go
Down we go Down we go
The Devil and me Down we
go down down down
Hell fire and flames Down we
go Down we go
To Eternity Down we go We go
down down down
Down we go we go down down
down
Down we go the Devil and me to
Eternity
We go down down down down down ad
inferno