Up Jumped The Devil Lyrics - Cave Nick

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