Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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Oh my, oh my, what a wretched life
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I was born on the day that my poor mama died
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I was cut from her belly with a Stanley knife
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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
    Well, up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me

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

    Oh, who's that milling on the courthouse steps
    Nailing my face to the hitching fence
    Who's that milling 'round the courthouse steps
    Up jumped the Devil and off he crept

Oh no, oh 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 safer 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
    Well up jumped the Devil, one, two, three

H-h-h-h-h-how lucky we were
We hit the cat-houses and we sampled their wares
We got as drunk as a couple of Czars
That night I swallowed 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"

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

    Who's that hanging from the gallows tree
    His eyes are plucked but he looks like me
    Now who's that swinging from the gallows tree
    Up jumped the Devil and he took my soul from me