Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Christina The Astonishing (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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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"
[Chorus]
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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh
[Verse 2]
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Christina the Astonishing

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Was the most astonishing of all
She prayed balanced on a hurdle
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Or curled up into a ball
She fled to remote places
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Climbed towers and trees and walls
To escape the stench of human corruption
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Into an oven she did crawl
[Chorus]
Eb  Bb  G#            Gm
Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt

Eb  Bb  G#            Gm     D
Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh
[Verse 3]
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O Christina the Astonishing

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

Eb  Bb  G#            Gm
Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt

Eb  Bb  G#            Gm     D
Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh