Jack The Ripper Lyrics - Singles - Cave Nick

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(l,m) Nick Cave 

(p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 

Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano; 

Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: drums; 

The Bad Seeds: backing vocals; 

Mick Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements; 

Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins > 

( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) 

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I got a woman 

SHe rules my house with an iron fist 

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 

I got a woman 

She strikes me down with a fist of lead 

I got a woman 

She strikes me down with a fist of lead 

We bed in a bucket of butcher's knives 

A awake with a hatchet hanging over my head 

Well you know the story of the viper 

It's long and lean with poison tooth 

Yeah, you know the story of the viper 

It's long and lean with poison tooth 

Well they're hissing under the floorboards 

Hanging down in bunches from my roof 

I got a woman 

She just hollers what she wants from where she is 

I got a woman 

She just hollers what she wants from where she is 

She screams out Jack the Ripper 

Every time I try to give that girl a kiss 

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Transcribed by Pat H. Etic...