Up Jumped The Devil Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Oh my, oh 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 yonder all in flames 

Draggin' behind him a sack of chains 

Who's that yonder all in flames 

Up jumped the devil and he staked his claim 

Oh poor heart 

I was doomed from the start 

Doomed to play 

The villain's part 

I was the baddest Johnny 

In the apple cart 

My blood was blacker 

Than the cheapest of a dead nun's heart 

Who's that millin' on the courthouse steps 

Nailin' my face to the hitchin' fence 

Who's that millin' on the courthouse steps 

Up jumped the devil and off we crept 

Oh no, oh 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 lynchin' rope 

Who's that yonder laughin' at me 

Like I was the brunt of some hilarity 

Who's that yonder laughin' at me? 

Well up jumped the devil 1, 2, 3 

Ha ha ha ha ha 

How lucky we were 

We hit the cat house 

And sampled their whares 

We got as drunk 

As a couple of Czars 

One night I spat out 

My lucky stars 

Who's that dancin' on the jail house roof? 

Stampin' on the rampin' with a cloven hoof 

Who's that dancin' on the jail house roof? 

Up jumped the devil and said 

"Here is your man and I got a proof" 

Oh no, oh no, don't go 

Oh 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 hangin' from the gallow tree 

His eyes are hollow but he looks like me 

Now who's that swingin' from the gallow 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 we go, down we go, down we go 

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