Snow-Hen Of Austerlitz Chords by Rasputina

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They [Am] say not far away, in [Em] fact upon [D] that hill
[Am] They say that there's a [Em] little girl there still
[Am] She wasn't raised [Em] like the other [D] [Am] kids
Less than [G] a snowy [A] and a lost or lit
[Am] _ _ [G] The [Am] _ _ _ _
mother is blind and [Em] keeps some birds [D] as pets
[Am] _ That her baby [Em] is a human she [D] forgets
[Am] In a tiny wire pen that [G] little girl still sits
[Am] Less than [G] a snowy [A] and a lost or [Am] lit
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ She must [G] be ten or eleven [Dm] now
I heard she's [Am] pretty but she don't have [A] all the wits _
[G] She's the snow hen of _ _ [Am] _
Asterlitz
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Not having really [Em] neither wings [D] nor beak
[Am] She never [Em] learned to walk [D] or speak
She's a little [Am] child, the mother [Em] never [Bm] says a word
[Am] To communicate [G] this little girl [Am] she chirps like a bird
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All the birds around they taught [Em] the little girl [D] their language
[Am] When she's not understood she starts [Em] to get [D] real angry
So [Am] she waves her hands around just [Em] like they were [D] her wings
[Am] Oh but when [G] she's happy [A] you should hear her sing
_ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ Or [G] leave the cage door open
[A] Oh [Am] see how [A] far she gets
She's known [G] as the snow hen of Asterlitz
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[Am] Kept like a pet [Em] in old [D] Hen Coop
[Am] The mother didn't beat her [Em] and she gave [D] her food
[Am] Still pitiful, no care [G] shown
But [Am] it's the life [G] of the snow [A] hen of _ _ Asterlitz
[Am] _ [G] A [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] skinny thing with [Em] brittle clats like bones
[Am] Was it wind in the trees or the [G] snow hen's bones?
[Am] From parts of Perch [Em] and that attic she fled _
[Am] This [G] then the snow [A] hen of _ _ Asterlitz
[Am] [G] She's _ [A] _ _ _
[G] been ten or eleven now
[Dm] I heard [Am] she's pretty but she don't have [A] all the wits _
[G] She's the snow hen of _ [Dm] _
[Am] _ Asterlitz
_ [A] _ _ Or [G] leave the cage _ [D] door open _
[Am] Or see how far [A] she gets
She's known [G] as the snow hen [Dm] of _ _ _
[Am] Asterlitz
_ She _ _ [G] must be ten or eleven now
[Dm] I [Am] heard she's pretty but she don't have all the wits
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[G] She's the snow hen of _ _ [Dm] _
[Am] _ Asterlitz
_ [A] _ _ Or [G] leave the cage door [D] open _
[Am] Or see how far she gets
She's known [G] as the snow hen of _ _ _
[Am] Asterlitz
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