Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Christina the Astonishing: chords

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Christina the Astonishing
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Lived a long time ago
She was stricken with a seizure
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At the age of twenty-two
They took her body in a coffin
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To a tiny church in Liege
Where she sprang up from the coffin
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Just after the Agnus Dei
She soared up to the rafters
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Perched on a beam up there
Cried "The stink of human sin

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The stink Is more that I can bear"

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt
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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh

Christina the Astonishing
Was the most astonishing of all
She prayed balanced on a hurdle
Or curled up into a ball
She fled to remote places
Climbed towers and trees and walls
To escape the stench of corruption
The stench of human corruption
Into an oven she did crawl

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Christina the Astonishing
Behaved in a terrifying way
She would run wildly through the streets
Jump in the Meuse and swim away
Christina the Astonishing
Behaved in terrifying manner
Died at the age of seventy-four,
died at the age of seventy-four
In The Convent of St Anna

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