Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Up Jumped the Devil

[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 [Chorus] Who's that yonder laughing at me? Like I was the brunt of some hilarity Who's that yonder laughing at me? Well, up jumped the Devil, one, two, three [Verse 4] Ha-ha ha ha ha, how lucky we were We hit the cathouse and sampled their wares We got as drunk as a couple of czars That night I swatted my lucky star [Chorus] 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, I got proof" [Verse 5] Oh no, oh no, don't go, oh slow down Joe The righteous path is straight as an arrow Take a walk and you'll find it's too narrow Too narrow for the likes of me [Chorus] Who's that hanging from the gallow tree? His eyes are plucked but he looks like me Now, who's that swinging from the gallow tree? Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me [Outro] Down, down, down, down we go Down we go, down we go, down we go The Devil and me Down we go, down we go, down we go Down, down, down, The Devil and me Down we go, down we go, for eternity, down we go Down we go, yeah down we go, down we go Down, down, down, down we go Down we go, down we go, the Devil and me Down we go, down we go