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