The Handsome Family – Woodpecker (Guitar)

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From the album Wilderness [INTRO] G G/B [VERSE 1]
G       D     G
Lovely Mary Sweeney, 

     C              G
the famous window smasher

            C                  G
Was just a quiet school marm - Oh de lay ee ee

        D        G
from Lacrosse, Wisconsin
[VERSE 2]
     G      D        G
She took a pinch of cocaine 

     C            G
but only for her nerves

  C             G
Laudanum for trembling hands, 

                 D      G   G7
a little bottle in her purse
[CHORUS]
            C
She was a woodpecker, 

        G
she couldn't help but see

C
All the things that hide 

        D               G
inside all the pretty trees
[VERSE 3]
   G         D       G
At dusk she took a train 

        C             G
just a hammer in her bag

                C            G
She went from town to town - Oh de lay ee ee

                D       G   G7
smashing every pane of glass
[PRE-CHORUS]
  C                     G
Storefronts, mirrors, windshields 

  C                G
shattered in the night

   C                G
A hammer through a window’s gleam 

            D           G G7
filled the air with light
[CHORUS]
            C
She was a woodpecker, 

        G
she couldn't help but free

C
All the things that hide 

        D               G
inside all the pretty trees
[INTERLUDE] G D G C G C G D G [CHORUS]
            C
She was a woodpecker, 

        G
she couldn't help but free

C
All the things that hide 

        D               G
inside all the pretty trees
[VERSE 4]
G       D        G
In the state asylum 

        C             G
the windows caged in bars

        C             G
They soaked her in an ice-cold bath 

              D       G G7
till she was seeing stars
[PRE-CHORUS]
  C                     G
Wrapped up in her straitjacket 

     C                  G
her mind still hammered on

           C                         G
Till the glass inside her smashed - Oh de lay ee ee

                  D          G G7
and she flew off into the trees
[CHORUS]
            C
She was a woodpecker, 

        G
she couldn't help but see

C
All the things that hide 

        D               G
inside all the pretty trees
[OUTRO] G G/B