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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 younder all in flames |
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Dragging behind him a sack of chains |
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Who's that younder 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 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 he 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 younder laughing at me |
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Like i was the brunt of some hilarity |
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Who's that younder 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 spat out |
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My lucky stars |
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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 a 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 part |
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I 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 ad inferno |
