This song has difficult timing, but a simple chord structure. A good one from CocoRosie!
[Intro]
A Bm C#m
Warming the hearts of tragic hoodlum spirits (Flute plays around in D until noted below)
D
Brighten the eyes of petty thieves who crawl at night
N.C.
Who feign to use a knife
N.C.
Jingle jangle the cosmos are on fire
N.C.
The blazing lines of the criminal choir
N.C.
Rejoiced to be alive
N.C.
Broken and depraved
N.C.
Sullied mop and rusted pail
A Bm
Centuries of poison to escape this heaven or hell
C#m D
This earthly cell of dead flowers and so many wounded foes
N.C.
It's hard to remember fantasy or horror
N.C
Unwanted caresses
N.C
Little Lolitas who want to be held in large hands
N.C
Dear Father, who art in heaven
N.C.
Hollow be thy name
A Bm
Witches confused by their own magic
C#m
Witches displeased by their own perfume
D
Shame-locked women
N.C.
Shaman women fuming with shame
N.C
Love-locked women
N.C.
Women their own magic women
N.C.
Shadow body, shadow spirit
D
White blood, blue night (Start fast piano and stop flute)
A
Angels lyrics
Bm F#
Female creature wilted high in the raftors
D A
Orgies of dust and butterfly laughter
Bm F#
Shadows spilling into the babe's milk
D
Starry eyes of ghost's memoir
A
Four blue plus two, that makes six
Bm
That's twelve times two
F#
Two brown eyes, one green
D
Hazel's asleep in the hayloft
A Bm
Down the road drowning in dry grass
F#
In the sweet maiden's lap poisened with nightshade
D
Witches last laugh
[Chorus]
A
Stick your thumb out
Bm
Lift up your skirt
F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D A
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
Bm F#
Someone's gonna take you home
D A
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
Bm F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D A
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
Bm F#
Someone's gonna take you home
[Verse]
D
Even though red's not your color
A
I'll dress you in feathers
Bm
And fly you in the windy weather
F# D
Like a child bird marooned on an island of cats
A
Little dewy brawling cats
Bm
With cross-eyes and hats
F#
They take mercy on you
D
They take you for walks
A Bm
The mercy choir singing dismal hymns watery bible rhymes
F#
All jumbled a mess
D A Bm F#
A mess of bright graves and flowers and balloons
[Chorus] (Play twice)
D A
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
Bm F#
Someone's bound to stop here soon
D A
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
Bm F#
Someone's gonna take you home
[Verse]
D
With a knapsack of trinkets
A
I'm off to seek my fortune again
Bm
Chasing ghosts of dead orphans
F#
Friend, cousin, or kin
D
We wave to the passer by
A
Moth wings of a butterfly
Bm
Endless tracks where no car pass
F#
Close your eyes and you can fly
D
I'm off to meet my soul mate
A
A naked fawny jailbait
Bm
Wading into ponds
F#
Filled with pollywogs at dawn
D
Mournin' the light
A
That slipped from my eyes
Bm
A little child with dirty nails
F#
And dirty hair
D A Bm F#
I had dirty things scrawled upon my mind
[Instrumental]
D A Bm F#
[Chorus] (Play four times)
D A
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
Bm F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D A
Take down your hair, wind up your grin
Bm F#
Someone's gonna take you home