Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped the Devil

This is an unofficial stop motion music video for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Up Jumped the Devil. From the album Tender Prey.
Made for artistic purposes only.
If this by any means infringes or violates any existing copyrights, please let me know and i will take it down immediately.

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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 chambers 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 wares
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 path
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
The Devil and me
Down we go
To Eternity
Down we go We go down down down
Down we go we go down down down

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[commentguy743]

Thumbs up 4 ALAN WAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blodhosta]

I love how Nick Cave captures some of that eerie mood from old blues legends like Robert Johnson and Blind Willie Johnson, but still really makes his own thing. In its haunted soulfullness it is, in a way, more true to the art than much of what musically follows the "blues formula" more strictly.

[TheShmander]

its creepy as fuck and at the same time a cool fucking song

[leizza29]

awesome! great ideas!

[pricklyphlox]

Very good. I've seen this many times over the years. Nick should adopt it as the official video.

[Cazz814]

@TheATeciak Red right hand, mercy seat, hammer song, dig lazarus dig-all his songs are great but those along with this song are among my favorites of his.

[eepetius]

I came for Alan Wake, I stayed for Nick Cave.

[chiporskip]

feels kinda tim burton-ish.

[bbentron612]

this song has changed my life. i cant even believe how attached i have become to this song!

[Johnny3D3D]

who else is pumped for Alan Wake's American Nightmare?

[trianglewaves]

Nick Cave and Tom Waits should find a way to be 1 eternal person so the world will never run out of badass music made by scrawny white guys who sound like burly black men.

[bamtwo]

How I wish there was a live video of Nick Cave singing this!!