Jon Barrow Lyrics


In rural town just up the coast dwells the Ghost of Jon Barrow

The tale is told how he sold his soul, sold it to the Devil

Jon met a man a wily man with pockets full of silver

With a wishful sigh and a greedy eye his mind it got to thinking

Now on a cold and windswept night the plan it was quite simple

Get him drunk, send him out, hide, jump up and end him

But the Devils in the details

The Devil looks after his own

But the Devils in the details

The coin was a Devil's loan

Jon crept ahead, crouched down low waiting on the footsteps

T'was a cloven hoof that came that way looking in the moonlight

Jon jumped then club in hand but the Devil stared him down

"If its silver you want then deal with me, but you'll never leave this town

Jon made his fortune that very night and died a wealthy man

But his ghost still roams and haunts and moans 'cause He'll never leave that land

But the Devils in the details

The Devil looks after his own

But the Devils in the details

The coin was a Devil's loan

But the Devils in the details

The Devil looks after his own

But the Devils in the details

The coin was a Devil's loan