Up Jumped the Devil Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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[Verse 1]
Oh my, oh my, what a wretched life
I was born on the day that my poor mamma died
I was cut from her belly with a Stanley knife
My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
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 chambers of a dead nun's heart

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
Oh no, oh 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

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