Meschiya Lake and Søren Siegumfeldt's String Swing - Up Jumped the Devil

O My O My
What a wretched life
I was born on the day
my poor mama 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
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

O poor heart
I was doomed from the start
I was 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
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 the deserts of Mexico
Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope
Who's that yonder laughing at me
Like I was the brunt of some hilarity
Who's that yonder laughing at me
Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3

O no O no
don't go slow
The righteous part is
Straight as an arrow
Take a walk
And youll find it too narrow
Too narrow for the likes of me
Who's that hanging from the gallows tree
His eyes are hollow but he looks like me
Who's that hanging from the gallows 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,
down, down, down, down
Down

Written by:
Blixa Bargeld, Kid Powers, Michael Harvey, Nicholas Cave, Roland Wolf, Thomas Wydler

Publisher:
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