Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Up Jumped The Devil (Guitar)

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[Verse]

Fm
Oh my, oh my

What a wretched life

      Cm
I was born on the day

That my poor mama died

      Fm
I was cut from her belly

With a Stanley knife

    Cm
My daddy did a jig

With the drunk midwife [Chorus]

Fm
Who's that yonder all in flames

  Cm
Dragging behind him a sack of chains

Fm
Who's that yonder all in flames

      Cm
Well, up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim on me

[Verse]

Fm
Oh, poor heart

I was doomed from the start

 Cm
Doomed to play

The villain's part

           Fm
I was the baddest Johnny

In the apple cart

     Cm
My blood was blacker

Than the chambers of a dead nun's heart [Chorus]

     Fm
Oh, who's that milling on the courthouse steps

Cm
Nailing my face to the hitching fence

Fm
Who's that milling 'round the courthouse steps

Cm
Up jumped the Devil and off he crept

[Verse]

   Fm
Oh no, oh no

Where could I go

        Cm
With my hump of trouble

And my sack of woe

        Fm
To the digs and the deserts of Mexico

         Cm
Where my neck was safer from the lynching rope

[Chorus]

Fm
Who's that yonder laughing at me

     Cm
Like I was the brunt of some hilarity

Fm
Who's that yonder laughing at me

     Cm
Well up jumped the Devil, one, two, three

[Verse]

Fm
H-h-h-h-h-how lucky we were

Cm
We hit the cathouses

And we sampled their wares

Fm
We got as drunk

As a couple of Czars

     Cm
That night I swallowed

My lucky stars [Chorus]

Fm
Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof

Cm
Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof

Fm
Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof

Cm
Up jumped the Devil and said "Here is your man and I got a proof"

[Verse]

   Fm
Oh no, oh no, don't go

Oh, slow down Joe

Cm
The righteous path is straight as an arrow

Fm
Take a walk and you'll find it's too narrow

Cm
Too narrow for the likes of me

[Chorus]

Fm
Who's that hanging from the gallows tree

    Cm
His eyes are plucked but he looks like me

     Fm
Now who's that swinging from the gallows tree

Cm
Up jumped the Devil and he took my soul from me