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"Jack the Ripper (Acoustic Version)" lyrics

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics

"Jack the Ripper (Acoustic Version)"

I got a woman
She rules my house with an iron fist
Well I got a woman
She rules my house with an iron fist
She screams out Jack the Ripper
Every time I try to give that girl a kiss

Well I got a woman
She strikes me down with a fist of lead
Oh yeah
Well I got a woman
She strikes me down with a hand of lead
We bed in a bucket of butcher's knives
I awake with a hatchet hanging over my head

Well you know the story of the viper
It's long and lean with a poison tooth
Oh yeah
You know the story of the viper
It's long, it's lean, with a poison tooth
Well they're hissing under the floorboards
Hanging down in bunches from my roof
Oh yeah

Well, I got a woman
She just hollers what she wants from where she's at
Well I got a woman
She just hollers what she wants from where she's at
Big fists on her hips
Standing neat and arching back

Yeah I got a woman
She rules my house with an iron fist
Yeah I got a woman
She rules my house with an iron fist
She screams out Jack the Ripper
Every time I try to give that girl a kiss
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah


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Writer(s): Nicholas Edward Cave
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compilation: "B-Sides & Rarities" (2005)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities compilation cover
Deanna (Acoustic Version)
The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
City of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
The Moon Is In The Gutter
The Six Strings That Drew Blood
Rye Whiskey
Running Scared
Black Betty
Scum
The Girl At the Bottom of My Glass
The Train Song
Cocks 'n' Asses
Blue Bird
Helpless
God's Hotel
(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
Cassiel's Song
Tower of Song
What Can I Give You?
What a Wonderful World
Rainy Night In Soho
Lucy (Version #2)
Jack the Ripper (Acoustic Version)
Sail Away
There's No Night Out in the Jail
That's What Jazz Is to Me
The Willow Garden
The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane
King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
Knoxville Girl
Where the Wild Roses Grow (Original Guide Vocal Version)
O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 1
O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 2
O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 3
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
O'Malley's Bar Reprise
Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version)
Little Empty Boat
Right Now I'm A-roaming
Come Into My Sleep
Black Hair (Band Version)
Babe, I Got You Bad
Sheep May Safely Graze
Opium Tea
Grief Came Riding
Bless His Ever Loving Heart
Good Good Day
Little Janey's Gone
I Feel So Good
Shoot Me Down
Swing Low
Little Ghost Song
Everything Must Converge
Nocturama
She's Leaving You
Under This Moon
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