(Can you turn me up a bit?) King kong kitchee kitchee ki-mi-o [4 times and throughout song] Well frog went a-courtin' and he did ride With a sword and a pisto...

I met a little girl in Knoxville A town we all know well And every sunday evening In her home I'd dwell We went to take an evening walk About a mile from town I...

I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes Your vampire tooth, your little truth Your tiny lies I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize Your sleep...

They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) They're gonna sink me in the snow They're gonna throw back their heads and crow When I go They're gonna jump and shout (L...

(LennonMcCartney) When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And in my hour of darkness She is standing...

C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside And breathe the autumn air See the many that have lived and died See the unending golden stair See all of us that have come ...

The boatman calls from the lake A lone loon dives upon the water I put my hand over her Down in the lime tree arbour The wind in the trees is whispering Whispe...

You found me at some party, you thought I'd understand You barreled over to me, with a drink in each hand I respect your beliefs girl and I consider you a frien...

Please forgive me (it's impossible to say) if I appear unkind (it's impossible to know) but any fool can tell you, it's all in your mind Down in the meadow, th...

Under here, you just take my breath away Under here, the water flows over my head I can hear the little fishes Under here whispering your most terrible name Un...

She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me Ten years ago, on a cold...

Oh, plane, take me away Said, I'll be sittin' here for the rest of my life and I am really scared-- Nick's not coming tonight And brother, I can't even think o...

Yeah, they came to take me away Said I'd be sitting here for the rest of my life But I don't really care - I shot my wife And brother, I can't even remember the...

Original version of Henry Lee Nick's version is also available "Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried, "And stay all night with me I have gold chains, and ...

"Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried, "And stay all night with me I have gold chains, and the finest I have I'll apply them all to thee" "I can't get do...

l hold d this letter in my hand A plea of petition, a kind of prayer I hope it does as I have planned Losing her again is more than I can bear I kiss the cold ...

There she stands, this lovely creature There she stands, there she stands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So I asked this lovely cr...

There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?) There's a devil waiting outside your door It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor And he'...

Last night I lay trembling The moon it was low It was the end of love Of misery and woe Then suddenly above me Her face buried in light Came a vision of beauty ...

Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to Kurt Weill See the shark with teeth like razors And he wears them in his face And Macheath has ...

I stood in the water In the middle month of winter My camel skin was torture I was in a state of nature The wind, sir, it was wicked I was so alone Just as I pr...

Yo me pare en el agua En el mes mas crudo del invierno La piel de mi camello torturaba Estaba en mi estado natural El viento, se?±or, era desagradable Estaba ta...

I hope you're sitting comfortably I saved you the best seat in the house Right up in the front row The stars have been torn down The moon is locked away And the...

Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride A sword and pistol by his side Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm He went do...

Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride A sword and pistol by his side Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm He went do...

Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, and it is available on a CD called Soho They call him Joe The Dragon He's on the water wagon He's got that look ...

I have a friend in you, oh Mr Clarinet You make me laugh, and then cry like the song of the clarinet Marry me, marry me alive O I put on my coat of trumpets Wil...

Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising Muddy water taking back the land The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating Ain't no use to stay and make a ...

Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored wings Mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches! (Damn things nearly hardly flap) Canker upon...

I was just a boy when I sat down To watch the news on TV I saw some ordinary slaughter I saw some routine atrocity My father said, don't look away You got to be...

One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the troops that lay conquered Like fruit left ...

Una ma?±ana desperte Un sol nuevo brillaba El cielo era un reino Todo cubierto en sangre La luna y las estrellas fueron las tropas que se dejaron conquistar Com...

Nick the stripper hideous to the eye hideous to the ee he's a fat little insect a fat little insect and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again Nick the stripper dances o...

Pass me that lovely little gun My dear, my darting one The cleaners are coming, one by one You don't even want to let them start They are knocking now upon you...

I thought I'd take a walk today It's a mistake I sometimes make My children lay asleep in bed My wife lay wide-awake I kissed her softly on the brow I tried not...

Oh happy day, oh happy day When Jesus washed, oh when He washed When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away Oh happy day He taught me how to walk, fight and p...

Oh happy day, oh happy day; When Jesus washed, oh when He washed When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away; Oh happy day He taught me how to walk, fight and ...

Here I sleep the morning through Until the call to prayer awakes me And there is nothing to do but rise And follow the day wherever it takes me I stand at the w...

Once there was a little tailor boy About sixteen years of age; My father hired me to a miller That I might learn the trade I fell in love with a Knoxville girl...

From the Current '93 album All the Pretty Horsies The rivers of Babylon flow, and fall, and carry awayJesus is alone on earth, not merely with no one to feel an...

Erik wrote: "The theme is similar to the Nick's song New Morning Note also that the line 'There'll be no sadness, no sorrow' also is in New Morning Finally, the...

Plain gold ring on her finger she wore It was where everyone could see It belonged to someone, but not me On her hand she wore a plain gold ring Plain gold rin...

They're working us like dogs around here 'Cause pleasure is the boss And I'm the happiest slave alive round here 'Cause pleasure is the boss And nothing is safe...

(S MacGowan) I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We w...

I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We watched our fri...

Take a litle walk to the edge of town Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border ...

Whoooahh! Bite! Whoooah! Bite! Release the bats! Release the bats! Don't tell me that it doesn't hurt A hundred fluttering in your skirt Don't tell me that it d...

The street is very wide and I can't see across it my house isn't clear to me the cars move in between Chorus And I say: Question when is a door not a door??? a...

Please forgive me If I appear unkind But any fool can tell you It's all in your mind Down in the meadow The old lion stirs Puts his hand "?cross his mouth He h...

Let me say this to you I'll be steadfast and true And my love will never falter The sea would crash about us The waves would lash about us I'll be your Rock of...

Just running scared, each place we go So afraid, that he might show Yeah, running scared, what would I do If he came back and wanted you? Just running scared,...

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall Y...

I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when l'm dry, If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die Rye whisky, rye whisky, Rye whisky, I cry, If you don...

[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this] Credits: Humphreys/Lovett/Richards/Lynch/Anderson/LPA I look at you in your sad dark eyes And ...

Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lovers seat ...

I climbed the hill, lay in the grass A little dark-eyes girl drifted past She said, "All the best has come, it could not last And the worst is has come true"? H...

Born of the river, Born of its ever-changing, never-changing murky water Oh riverboat just rollin' along through the great great greasy city Huck standing like ...

O say goodbye to the little girl tree O you know that I must say goodbye To the little girl tree This wall I built around you Is made out of stone-lies O little...

This is a dead letter tale If I could make this print talk You made a deep mark/deep mark on me and only saints say such things as those so I slid under the flo...

Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like a skin She fell away Left me holding ev...

She passed by my window Her eyes were all aglow And bent to pick her glove she'd dropped From the bright and brittle snow Nature had spoken it in the Spring Wi...

I've been contemplating suicide, but it really doesn't suit my style, so I think I'll just act bored instead who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would'v...

An old sentimental night you roll me at your sides you shot me down Though I had no enemy here you get me very near and shoot me down shoot me down your hands t...

I stuck a six inch gold blade inside the head of a girl she: lying through her teeth him: lying on his back hands of this one,hands off she cried grinning at me...

(Newbury, Folger) Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it Don't shine all the time A winter day suddenly came your way And you ran into you...

Lover, lover, goodbye So slowly goes the night I trace the print of your body with my hand Like the map of some forbidden land I trace the ghosts of your bones ...

Have mercy on me, sir Allow me to impose on you I have no place to stay And my bones are cold right through I will tell you a story Of a man and his family And ...

Through the woods, and frosted moors Past the snow-caked hedgerows I Bed down upon the drifting snow Sleep beneath the melting sky I whisper all your names I kn...

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads Nick's version is also available Further details (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also avai...

It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a Colt 45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old stetson hat Had a '28 Ford, had pay...

Bad man Stagalee when he bad, He bad wid a gun Stagalee, Stagalee --- you must-a been a sinner Ev'ry- Christmas eve they give Stagalee a dinner Bad man Stagalee...

Stagolee was a bad man, Ev'rybody knows Spent one hundred dollars Just to buy him a suit of dothes He was a bad man That mean old Stagolee Stagolee shot Billy ...

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, he's the meanest man in town When that boy starts gamblin', better lay your money down Down in New Orleans where they got that Lyon'...

The cops are hanging around the house The cars outside look like they've got the blues The moon don't know if it's day or night Everybody's creeping around with...

Hey hey I am the stow-a-way Hey hey I am the stow-a-way My girl turned blue as an iceberg do And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her Baby baby don't blow away ...

All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the time that I'll come running ...

Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And g...

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little gi...

Through the windswept coastal trees Where the dead come rising from the sea With a teddy-bear clamped between her knees She says, where can my loverman be? Well...

Quixanne, ah'm in its grip Quixanne, ah'm in its grip Sinken in the mud Patron-saint of the Bog They cum with boots of blud Wit pitchfawk and with clu Chantin o...

Come over here, babe It ain't that bad I don't claim to understand The troubles that you've had But the dogs you say they fed you to Lay their muzzles in your l...

How is little Thomas Magee? Thomas Magee, he swallowed a key Jedediah, little Thomas Magee Holly holly, just let him be His wife now, little Thomas Magee called...

There was a thick-set man with frog-eyes was standing at the door And a little bald man with wing-nut ears was waiting in the car Well, Robert Moore passed the ...

Now it begins, now that you're gone Needles and pins, twilight till dawn Watching that clock till you return And lighting that torch and watching it burn Now i...

Luck kissed my brow and held me close Said, ''I can no longer stay My brother will watch over you While I'm gone away" "You two will get on fine," he said But ...

(T Springfield, F Farian) Say goodbye, my one true lover And we'll steal a lover's song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone Oh my lo...

And no-one saw the carny go And the weeks flew by Until they moved on the show Leaving his caravan behind It was parked out on the south east ridge And as the c...

I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun goes down You can watch the whole town turn ...

Inanimational items elude I, and In-an-emotional-motion I swallow my Motive of quicker location is slammed my dim chance of skipping this thick world is thin Th...

I, cigarette fingers puff and poke puff and poking the smoke touches the ground You, your lungs and your wrists they throb like trains choo choo choo it's a pr...

One more land gone One more land gone One more land One more land gone One more land gone One more land is gone The Good Hun rode into the fields He is Attila...

One more man gone One more man gone One more man is gone The good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands But down in his heart now He...

I set out on monday The night was cold and vast And my brother slept And though I left quite quietly My father raged and raged And my mother wept Now, my life...

(A Harvey) Oh please don't send me out Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil I been walking on a road of rocks And I keep on hammering, keep on ham...

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor She l...

It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Sally Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a boy of no means With n...

Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed Wondering what to do With a lump of wood, a piece of wire And a little pot of glue O Mamma O Mamma He sawed at the wood w...

It began when they come took me from my home And put me in Dead Row, Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know And I'll say it again Iamnotafraidtodie I b...

The moon is in the gutter And the stars wash down the sink I am the king of the blues I scape the clay off my shoes And wade down the gutter and the moon The m...

Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your dogs upon me And let your h...