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Up Jumped the Devil (2010 Remaster)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Kid Congo Powers
Kid Congo Powers
Guitar
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Guitar
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Vocals
Thomas Wydler
Thomas Wydler
Drums
Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey
Vocals
Roland Wolf
Roland Wolf
Piano
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kid Congo Powers
Kid Congo Powers
Composer
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Composer
Thomas Wydler
Thomas Wydler
Composer
Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey
Composer
Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Composer
Roland Wolf
Roland Wolf
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Tony Cohen
Tony Cohen
Mixing Engineer
Simon Heyworth
Simon Heyworth
Mastering Engineer
Flood
Flood
Recording Engineer

Lyrics

O My O 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 younder all in flames Dragging behind him a sack of chains Who's that younder all in flames Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim O poor heart I was doomed from the start Doomed to play The villians part I was the baddest Johnny In the apple cart My blood was blacker Than the 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 deserts of Mexico Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope Who's that younder laughing at me Like I was the brunt of some hilarity Who's that younder laughing at me Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3 Ha-Ha Ha Ha How lucky we were We hit the cathouse And sampled their whares We got as drunk As a couple of Czars One night I spat out My lucky stars 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 and I got a proof" O no don't go O no O 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 hanging from the gallow tree His eyes are hollow but he looks like me Who's that swinging from the gallow tree Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me Down we go Down we go Down we go The Devil and me Down we go down down down Hell fire and flames Down we go Down we go To Eternity Down we go We go down down down Down we go we go down down down Down we go the Devil and me to Eternity We go down down down down down ad inferno
Writer(s): Kid Congo Powers, Nicholas Edward Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Michael John Harvey, Roland Wolf, Thomas Wydler Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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