Up Jumped The Devil

<br>O My O My<br>What a wretched life<br>I was born on the day<br>That my poor mother died<br>I was cut from her belly<br>With a stanley knife<br>My daddy did a jig<br>With the drunk midwife <br><br>Who`s that younder all in flames<br>Dragging behind him a sack of chains<br>Who`s that younder all in flames<br>Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim <br><br>O poor heart<br>I was doomed from the start<br>Doomed to play<br>The villians part<br>I was the baddest Johnny<br>In the apple cart<br>My blood was blacker<br>Than the of a dead nun`s heart <br><br>Who`s that milling on the courthouse steps<br>Nailing my face to the hitching fence<br>Who`s that milling on the courthouse steps<br>Up jumped the Devil and off he crept <br><br>O no O no<br>Where could I go<br>With my hump of trouble<br>And my sack of woe<br>To the digs and deserts of Mexico<br>Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope <br><br>Who`s that younder laughing at me<br>Like I was the brunt of some hilarity<br>Who`s that younder laughing at me<br>Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3 <br><br>Ha-Ha Ha Ha<br>How lucky we were<br>We hit the cathouse<br>And sampled their whares<br>We got as drunk<br>As a couple of Czars<br>One night I spat out<br>My lucky stars <br><br>Who`s that dancing on the jailhouse roof<br>Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof<br>Who`s that dancing on the jailhouse roof<br>Up jumped the Devil and said "Here is your man and I got a proof" <br><br>O no don`t go O no<br>O slow down Joe<br>The righteous part<br>I straight as an arrow<br>Take a walk<br>And you`ll find it too narrow<br>Too narrow for the likes of me <br><br>Who`s that hanging from the gallow tree<br>His eyes are hollow but he looks like me<br>Who`s that swinging from the gallow tree<br>Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me <br><br>Down we go Down we go Down we go<br>The Devil and me Down we go down down down<br>Hell fire and flames Down we go Down we go<br>To Eternity Down we go We go down down down<br>Down we go we go down down down<br>Down we go the Devil and me to Eternity<br>We go down down down down down ad inferno