Woodpecker chords by The Handsome Family

INTRO:
G G/B [alternate picking]

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: