Christina The Astonishing chords by
Nick Cave

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Key: G minor

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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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

Verse 2
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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

Verse 3
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She soared up to the rafters
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Perched on a beam up there
Cried "The stink of human sin
The stink of human sin
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The stink is more that I can bear"

Interlude 1

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Verse 4

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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

Verse 5
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She fled to remote places
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Climbed towers and trees and walls
To escape the stench of human
corruption
The stench of human corruption
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Into an oven she did crawl

Interlude 2

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Verse 6

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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 Meusse and swim away

Verse 7
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Christina the Astonishing
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Behaved in terrifying manner
She died at the age of seventy- four
Died at the age of seventy- four
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In the convent of St Anna