Biography:
The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 by singer-songwriter Martyn Jacques and based in London.
Currently Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge (Past member Phil Butcher)
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy.
The Tiger Lillies were originally buskers, playing songs about the criminals, pimps and whores of Soho, London, England.
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Other songs:
- Arthur
- Open Your Legs
- Overtime
- Start A Fire
- Abort The Child
- Alone With The Moon
- Angel
- Bad
- Bank Robber Blues
- Beat Me
- Billys Blues
- Boatman
- Brick In The Wall
- Cancer
- Cheapest Show
- Circus Clown
- Clown
- Crack Of Doom
- Crude
- Deathless Man
- Deranged
- Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht
- Fisheads
- Freakshow
- Getting Old
- Gonorrhoea
- Gouge My Eyes Out
- Hamsters
- Heaven To Hell
- Hell
- Heroin And Cocaine
- In Love With The Moon
- Interfered With
- Jackies Bar
- Kick A Baby
- Kick A Stick
- Lager Lout
- Maxwell
- Mountains Of Madness
- Mummy
- Murder
- Nightingale
- No Ones Clown
- Old Gracefully
- Picadilly Lilly
- Piss On Your Grave
- Pretty Little Arms
- Pretty Soon
- Punch Judy
- Rapist
- Roll Up
- Rue Dauseil
- Russians
- Same Old Story
- Sick
- Silors
- Snip Snip
- Soho News
- Souvenirs
- Swing Em High
- Terrible
- Tiger Lillie Line
- Violin Time
- Wake Up
- Whore
- Your Suicides
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Tiger Lillies - Drowning Girl (Bertolt Brecht)
Gm Cm
Once she had drowned and started her slow descent
Cm Gm
Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden
Gm Cm
Oh, the open sky chant most magnificent
Cm Gm
As if it was acting as her body's guardian
Cm D
Wreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight
Cm D
By clasping her in their slimy grip
Cm D
Through her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played
Cm D
Creatures and plant life kept on, thus obstructing her last trip
Gm Cm
And the sky that same evening grew dark as smoke
Cm Gm
And its stars through the night kept the brightness still soaring
Gm Cm
But it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke
Cm Gm
To see that she had one further morning
Cm D
Once her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair
Cm D
It happened quite slowly that she slipped from God's thoughts
Cm D
First with her face, then her hands, right at the last with her hair
Cm D Gm
Leaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse
Tabbed by timothio
Gm Cm
Once she had drowned and started her slow descent
Cm Gm
Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden
Gm Cm
Oh, the open sky chant most magnificent
Cm Gm
As if it was acting as her body's guardian
Cm D
Wreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight
Cm D
By clasping her in their slimy grip
Cm D
Through her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played
Cm D
Creatures and plant life kept on, thus obstructing her last trip
Gm Cm
And the sky that same evening grew dark as smoke
Cm Gm
And its stars through the night kept the brightness still soaring
Gm Cm
But it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke
Cm Gm
To see that she had one further morning
Cm D
Once her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair
Cm D
It happened quite slowly that she slipped from God's thoughts
Cm D
First with her face, then her hands, right at the last with her hair
Cm D Gm
Leaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse
Tabbed by timothio
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