O My O My
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What a wretched life
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I was born on the day
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That my poor mother died
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I was cut from her belly
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With a stanley knife
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My daddy did a jig
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With the drunk midwife
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Who's that yonder all in flames
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Dragging behind him a sack of chains
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Who's that yonder all in flames
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Up jumped the Devil and he staked his claim
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O poor heart
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I was doomed from the start
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Doomed to play
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The villians part
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I was the baddest Johnny
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In the apple cart
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My blood was blacker
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Than the chambers of a dead nun's heart
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Who's that milling on the courthouse steps
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Nailing my face to the hitching fence
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Who's that milling on the courthouse steps
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Up jumped the Devil and off we crept
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O no O no
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Where could I go
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With my hump of trouble
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And my sack of woe
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To the digs and deserts of Mexico
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Where my neck was safe from the lynching rope
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Who's that yonder laughing at me
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Like I was the brunt of some hilarity
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Who's that yonder laughing at me
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Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3
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Ha-Ha Ha Ha
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How lucky we were
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We hit the cathouse
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And sampled their whares
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We got as drunk
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As a couple of Czars
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One night I swallowed
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My lucky star
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Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof
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Stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof
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Who's that dancing on the jailhouse roof
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Up jumped the Devil and said "Here is your man and I got proof"
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O no don't go O no
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O slow down Joe
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The righteous path
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Is straight as an arrow
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Take a walk
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And you'll find it too narrow
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Too narrow for the likes of me
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Who's that hanging from the gallow tree
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His eyes are hollow but he looks like me
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Who's that swinging from the gallow tree
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Up jumped the Devil and took my soul from me
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Down we go Down we go Down we go
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The Devil and me Down we go down down down
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Hell fire and flames Down we go Down we go
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To Eternity Down we go We go down down down
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Down we go we go down down down
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Down we go the Devil and me to Eternity
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We go down down down down down an inferno
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Up Jumped The Devil
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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds |