Ye Banished Privateers Devil's Bellows song lyrics
Ye Banished Privateers Devil's Bellows song lyrics
A drunken winter night
A cut throat I did meet
He robbed of my purse
And left me sprawling on the street
And me sturdy old accordion
Which Pa' bought from the orient
Was never to be seen again
Damn that thief and curse his name
As I went onto me bed
It reeked of sulfur in me shed
And a sensation undefined sent shivers down me spine
Then, with a sudden burst of flames
Sat Satan in me window frame
With goat legs and a horse's cock
He made me scream in awe and shock
"I don't mean to intrude" he hissed
But there's a deal you can't resist
One hundred souls a modest price
Will buy one hell of a device
A squeezebox made of cherry tree
With ivory buttons yours can be
In three month's time it shall be done
So come now lad and sing this song
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Taken by his charm I signed the chart he put before me
Every soul is not for sale, but I guess I am a whore then
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
So, the following week my little town it fell in shock
As people went amiss there was no way to fact dismiss
And when they found Frau Pudel
Spiked upon dudelsack it was so brutal
Must be murder one concluded
The next day in the canal they found floating three more dead
Then Mar Shionnah found next to her bed without a head
Then Barbara Barnsy, Bina and Black Sam Bellamy
Was found dead next to Sina, what an awful felony
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Every night I rose from bed, to dance among the dead
And sure I found it thrilling, the knack I had for killing
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
And drowned in the marina, surfaced Jens and dear sweet Ina
And the Flying Dutchman sank from a hole in the cantina
Dieter, Dietmar, Christine, three Daniels, and Kirsten
A crew of metal swabbers was murdered and then robbered
And poor old Buckteeth Bannock
Had been stabbed while in his hammock and Blake
And Captains Schnicks and Morgan, robbed of all their organs
The Baklas, Captain Three Ell, had been sent off to a warm hell
So a whole damn pirates crew, had to bid the world adieu
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Some said Davy Jones took walks along the docks
And at night a haunting melody echoed in our block
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Bodies littered every street
Next they found Edith, and then they found Daniela
And on top of her a fella
In the pub they call Spelunke, where I used to get so drunken
Someone poisoned all the cherry beer
There where bodies everywhere
In a pile next to the door
Lay stiff upon the floor, Eva, Emrich, Edith
And Flink The Buccaneer, and herr Kohnke
And herr Klatt, who had choked upon his hat
And Gerit and Guido, and Herb and there was Ingo
And grumpy guy, and Inge and Julia, and Jenny
Who was robbed of her last penny
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
I swooped from scene to scene
Like some black angel of death
And they all looked so serene
As they drew their dying breath
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
And in the Schwarzer Kater Inn, with a horrible grin
Hermann had died while sipping on his gin
And red haired little Jessy, she looked so bloody messy
Her teeth around her scattered
And her face all bruised and battered
Then the saintly Bruter Rectus was nailed onto a cross
And Branco and Bärbel from a balcony was tossed
And in the house of Enderlin
A fire would being that took the lives of
Joerg Frau Meyer, Karin, Karo, Katherin, and Lars
And Lutz, and Lena, and alass they called Sabine
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Every morning I woke exhausted in my bed
My hands all bloody red and this jungle in my head
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
But when half the bill was paid, I was running out of time
So I grew even bolder as I schemed my grand design
At the town hall the next week, they invited the elite, for a ball
They conjugated, so I climbed the roof and waited
Attending that cold night was Lux Homini, Mareike two Martins,
and Orchestra Vroudenspil, Margret and Marius, Matze, Manfred,
Michael, Michelle and Morgan Adams, Natasha, Pierre, Erasmus, Wolve,
Robert, Sandra, Sally, Santi Scully, Frau Tepasse, Sigrid, Sille,
Simon, and Simone, the famous sloppy sisters Snu, Stefan, Frau Khali,
Susi, Syen, and Tanja, Tomas, Tom,
Tobias Trude, Herr Kadnira and Valeria Strazzeri
As the guests all did arrive, a storm was building up
And fiery forks across the sky, lit the heavens up
And as the music started playing I came down on my prey
From the fancy chandelier, crystal shattered everywhere
Like a deadly ballerina, I swooped across floor
This was my grand arena, and I
Danced in blood and gore, with a razor and and a cleaver
I moved like in a fever
To flickering lightning of the thunderstorm so frightening
Then all went awful quiet, and silent like the grave
As I stood there on the dance floor, with all the souls I had enslaved
The quota had been filled, with all the blood I'd split
Debt free but not guilt free, I had really paid the bill
Then the church bells started ringing, and all the windows cracked
And the Devil stood before me with me price upon his back
"Well done, lad" he told me, you've earned your new Brandoni
But there's one more soul you owe me, so I'll see you in a while
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Every tune so bloody and mellow
Now I spit fiery brimstone from the box upon me chest
With reeds of blackened iron and by the hundreds souls possessed
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow
Taken by his charm I'd signed the chart he put before
me, and on the day I die, I sure know where I'm going
Devil's bellows, made in hell it has the voice of hundred fellas
Hear my squeezebox belch and bellow