Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Christina the Astonishing
Album: Henry's Dream
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Christina the astonishing
                  Gm
Lived a long time ago
She was stricken with a seizure
                     D
At the age of twenty-two
They took her body in a coffin
                    Gm
To a tiny church in Liege
Where she sprang up from the coffin
                     D
Just after the agnus dei
She soared up to the rafters
                     Gm
Perched on a beam up there         
Cried ’the stink of human sin,
the stink of human sin,
     Eb                       D
this stink Is more that I can bear’

           Eb  Bb  G#       Gm
An i said  Oh, oh, oh, ohoh oh oh 

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Oh, oh, oh, oh 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 human corruption
Into an oven she did crawl


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

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transcribed Benjamin D.
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