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[VERSE 1]
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Lovely Mary Sweeney,
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the famous window smasher
C G
Was just a quiet school marm - Oh de lay ee ee
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from Lacrosse, Wisconsin
[VERSE 2]
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She took a pinch of cocaine
C G
but only for her nerves
C G
Laudanum for trembling hands,
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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
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inside all the pretty trees
[VERSE 3]
G D G
At dusk she took a train
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just a hammer in her bag
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She went from town to town - Oh de lay ee ee
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smashing every pane of glass
[PD-C HORUS]
C G
Storefronts, mirrors, windshields
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shattered in the night
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A hammer through a window’s gleam
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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
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inside all the pretty trees
[VERSE 4]
G D G
In the state asylum
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the windows caged in bars
C G
They soaked her in an ice-cold bath
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till she was seeing stars
[PD-C HORUS]
C G
Wrapped up in her straitjacket
C G
her mind still hammered on
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Till the glass inside her smashed - Oh de lay ee ee
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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
