Up Jumped the Devil (2010 Remaster)

Oh my, oh my

What a wretched life

I was born on the day

That my poor mama died

I was cut from her belly

With a Stanley knife

My daddy did a jig with a drunk midwife

Who's that yonder, all in flames

Dragging behind him a sack of chains?

Who's that yonder, all in flames?

For up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me

Oh, poor heart, I was doomed from the start

The 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 '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

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 1, 2, 3

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

How lucky we were

We hit the cathouses and we sampled their wares

We got as drunk as a couple of Czars

That night I swallowed my luckiest 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, I got 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 gallow tree?

His eyes are blocked but he looks like me

Now who's that swinging from the gallow tree?

Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me

Down, down, down, a-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

Down, down, down, a-down we go

A-down we go

(For eternity) A-down we go

A-down we go

A-down we go

Down, down, down, down

Down we go

Down we go

Down we go