Jack O Lantern
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Jack, you'll rue the day
That you ever picked me for a trick to play
And Jack, you've a price to pay
Forever in limbo you will stay!
It's me, the Devil, I'm the keeper of souls
With my deep dark eyes like bullet holes
And I've come here now for to tell to thee
Of Stingy Jack getting the better of me
He was a scalliwag, a drunk, and a thieving swine
But Jack fooled me for the first time
In an Irish tavern back long ago
When I'd come up top to bring him down below
A final wish, for pity's sake
I grant to all the sorry souls I take
But to honour Jack's was my first mistake
Just a call for a round of beers
I morphed into a coin to settle up the cost
And he stuffed me in his pocket with a silver cross
Stripped of power, then he had me at a loss
Unless I spared him another ten years
Jack, you'll rue the day
That you ever picked me for a trick to play
And Jack, you've a price to pay
Forever in limbo you will stay!
Ten years to the day, I returned for Jack
I cut him off wandering a dirt track
"I've kept my word, Jack, and well you know
That I'm up here now to bring you down below."
"It's fair," he replied, "Yeah, you've done as vowed
And given more time than I was allowed
But the journey's long and I'm starved and weak
Would you gather fruit from the apple tree?"
So I climbed up maybe twenty-odd feet from the ground
And picked the fruit, but I couldn't come down
'Cos Jack had stuck crosses all around
The base of the apple tree
That cursรฉd man, he'd fooled me again!
And helpless there I'd surely remain
Unless I returned to my own domain
Forever to leave him be
Jack, you'll rue the day
That you ever picked me for a trick to play
And Jack, you've a price to pay
Forever in limbo you will stay!
Age played its part
And brought about the end of the mortal's heart
But he couldn't go to heaven with a life of sin
And as for hell, I vowed never to let him in
You'll be sorry, Jack, sorry I say
For the trouble you've caused and the promise I've made
'Cos eternity alone in the place you'll dwell
Is a fate far worse than hell
Jack, you'll rue the day
That you ever picked me for a trick to play
And Jack, you've a price to pay
Forever in limbo you will stay!
It's me, the Devil, I'm the keeper of souls
With my deep dark eyes like bullet holes
From hell I give you a constant flame
Put it in a pumpkin to light your way