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Eat 'Em Up Jack!

from Lowlife (EP) by Piker Ryan's Folly

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EAT 'EM UP JACK!
(Words inspired by text from the books "Low Life" (1991) by Luc Santé and "The Gangs of New York" (1927) by Herbert Asbury)

In 1883 a man was hanged in the Tombs
For a murder in a drunken bout
Mike McGloin was his name and he staked the claim
"A guy ain't tough until he's knocked his man out!"

Well, the same could be said about a man whose been dead
Since the days of the Five Pointers' reign
Jack McManus could box, but it wasn't the sport
That would make some men shit at his name

Eat 'Em Up Jack! Eat 'Em Up Jack!

Jack liked to drink and he loved to smoke
But he lived to work out with his fists
You see, he worked at McGurk's Suicide Hall
Where he was known as a "mayhem specialist"
The problem was that the neighborhood whores
Who were fed up, yeah, they started a trend
They would go to McGurk's to poison themselves
And put their tragic lives to an end

Eat 'em Up Jack! Eat 'em Up Jack!
Eat 'em Up Jack! Eat 'em Up Jack!

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack's knuckles landed hard as a brick
"Throw 'em out, Jack! Before they die!"
Jack would move in the blink of an eye

Well the bodies shuddered as they hit the street
Jack's job was now complete
They cops would come and take the corpses away
As McGurk would laugh, "Well, hey! They didn't die in MY place!"

Eat 'em Up Jack! Eat 'em Up Jack!
Eat 'em Up Jack! Eat 'em Up Jack!

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from Lowlife (EP), released June 1, 1998

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Mark Steiner & His Problems Oslo, Norway

Mark Steiner is a well-known figure in Oslo’s music underworld, and he’s been around in Norway for so long that many assume that he is Norwegian. He is not. This ex-New Yorker is a wandering scoundrel who one might find hanging out in the shadowy corners of a pub at closing time. A international musical vagrant who might walk the streets with Stuart Staples, Nick Cave, and Rowland S. Howard... ... more

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