The Handsome Family

Whitehaven(Keyboard chords)

The Handsome Family

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Intro: C G F C 

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What a hideous forest surrounded Whitehaven 
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Twisted black mountains, wolves howled in madness 
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Never I ventured beyond the stone tower 
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As dusk spread her black wings at the edge of the dark wild wood 

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But one windy evening, gathering timbers 
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Under white elm trees in shadows, I saw her 
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The darkest of beauties with her basket of cherries 
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The wind at her black skirt like the hands of the wild dark wood 


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She turned in her terror, a madness possessed us 
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In shadow she clawed me, we screamed in the brambles 
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Hunters came running with torches and axes 
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Treetop to treetop, flames tore through the dark wild wood 

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Back down they dragged us past the stone towers 
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The church bells were ringing, the sky screamed in flashes 
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But we stood in the churchyard laughing like jackals 
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As the stone towers tumbled and bowed to the wild dark wood  

	        

Written by Brett Sparks/Rennie Sparks

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