We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Lonesome Death of Jack The Ripper

from Blood Moon by Jeff Andrew

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 CAD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is my first-ever vinyl release! Includes a printed lyric sheet, and a digital download. The cover art by Miccaotli looks great at 12x12!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Blood Moon via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 CAD or more 

     

lyrics

Well they called him Jack the Ripper
He killed five of her sisters
Stolen from a hard life of dirty tricks
They called him Jack the Ripper
He killed five of her sisters
He never shoulda’ tried for number six

He came at me down Goulston Alley
A flash of something silver in his hand
With a tooth-eye grin and a gentleman's smile, he said:
"You look like a girl who could use a friend"
I took his knife and I turned him out
Spilled his guts all over the fishmonger's door
I kept his smile for a souvenir and said:
"Sure Jacky, let me be your whore”

- Chorus -

Of course they found the body
I never thought to bother with trying to hide it
You think I told the cops? Hell no!
A story won't sell if no one wants to buy it
To them he was doing a public service
And what's more, they were in on it anyway
The doctors and the lawyers know
People get killed in this town every day

- Chorus -

This town has seen its share of killers
Working from positions both high and low
Some of them are dressed in rags
While some of them wear finely tailored clothes
The careless fools take all the heat
While the successful psychopaths have always known
That a bloodstain's easily overlooked
If you wear it with a diamond or a rose

Chorus -

Creatures of the night gotta stick together!
Guard against the wicked interlopers in our midst
Creatures of the night gotta stick together!
Be watchful during the silence of a kiss

As for me, I leave no trace
No identifying marks or memorable clothes
Unlike poor Mary Nichols & Annie Chapman
Lizzie Stride, Mary Jane Kelly & Catherine Eddowes
History will say I been forgotten
But ain't that just the way it always goes?
The ones who really make the difference
Are the nameless thorns who dress the pretty rose

- Chorus -

Creatures of the night gotta stick together!
Guard against the wicked interlopers in our midst
Creatures of the night gotta stick together!
Be watchful during the silence of a kiss

credits

from Blood Moon, released June 9, 2023
Leo D.E. Johnson: vocals
Adam Farnsworth: piano, organ, vocals
Denver venoit: drums
Kenan Zeigler-Sungur: upright bass
Jeff Andrew: guitar, vocals

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jeff Andrew Vancouver, British Columbia

Fiddles, horns, double bass and subterranean percussion from the tunnels of East Vancouver. Songs from the road and beyond the grave.

"A backroads troubadour with a few things to say by way of viscera, nerve and hard experience." - Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
... more

contact / help

Contact Jeff Andrew

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Jeff Andrew recommends:

If you like Jeff Andrew, you may also like: