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Up Jumped The Devil
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Oh my, oh my
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What a wretched life
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I was born on the day
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That my poor mother died
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I was cut from her belly
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With a Stanley knife
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My daddy did a jig
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With the drunk midwife
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Who's that yonder all in flames
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Draggin' behind him a sack of chains
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Who's that yonder all in flames
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Up jumped the devil and he staked his claim
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Oh poor heart
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I was doomed from the start
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Doomed to play
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The villain's part
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I was the baddest Johnny
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In the apple cart
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My blood was blacker
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Than the cheapest of a dead nun's heart
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Who's that millin' on the courthouse steps
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Nailin' my face to the hitchin' fence
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Who's that millin' on the courthouse steps
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Up jumped the devil and off we crept
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Oh no, oh no
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Where could I go
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With my hump of trouble
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And my sack of woe
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To the digs
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And the deserts of Mexico
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Where my neck was safe
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From the lynchin' rope
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Who's that yonder laughin' at me
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Like I was the brunt of some hilarity
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Who's that yonder laughin' at me?
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Well up jumped the devil 1, 2, 3
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Ha ha ha ha ha
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How lucky we were
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We hit the cat house
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And sampled their whares
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We got as drunk
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As a couple of Czars
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One night I spat out
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My lucky stars
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Who's that dancin' on the jail house roof?
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Stampin' on the rampin' with a cloven hoof
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Who's that dancin' on the jail house roof?
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Up jumped the devil and said
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"Here is your man and I got a proof"
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Oh no, oh no, don't go
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Oh slow down Joe
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The righteous part
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I straight as an arrow
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Take a walk
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And you'll find it too narrow
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Too narrow
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For the likes of me
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Who's that hangin' from the gallow tree
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His eyes are hollow but he looks like me
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Now who's that swingin' from the gallow tree
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Up jumped the devil and took my soul from me
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Down we go, down we go, down we go
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Down we go, down we go, down we go
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Down we go, down we go, down we go
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