Lizard Tabulatur von The Handsome Family

Starts with G to Gm

G                Bb           C         G
Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch
          Bb                  F
She lived high in the bramble forest
       G                 Bb   C     G
Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right
         Bb                 F
she came down to our little village
            G            Bb  C      G 
She brought blackberries and willow bark
Bb                F
mandrake root and mushrooms
       G            Bb        C         G
And it was said she spoke the tongue of birds
         Bb                F
And understood the river s whispers

            Eb              Bb  
Now several girls among our town
     F                       Cm
by a golden lizard they were bitten
          G           Bb        C        G
And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beds
     Bb         C         G
like frozen ice up on the branches
G              Bb          C         G
Granny Green mixed a tonic for their ills
           Bb            F
but it was such a bitter tonic
        G     Bb    C  G
All who drank began to dance
          Bb             F
and could not stop their dancing
    Cm                                Gm
But none would have danced one sinful step
        Bb        C         G
If that old crone had not bewitched us

G Bb C G
Bb F

G      Bb         C           G
How we leaped and pranced and cackled
          Bb            F
the whole town writhing madmen
       Cm                                 Gm
And so desperate grew some to still their feet
     Bb   C               Gm
they dove into the raging river
         Eb                Bb
Still we danced on day and night
         F                          Cm
till our fine clothes were torn and ragged
           G         Bb      C     G
And crying out,  Oh, Lord, make us stop! 
          Bb    C         G
we danced naked round the chapel
G          Bb          C       G
How Granny laughed to see such sin.
           Bb                       F
 It s just water,  she said,  in my tonic! 
              G         Bb        C      G
But all cried out,  She lies! She surely lies! 
               Bb   C        G
and chased her deep into the bramble
             Eb             Bb
But like the four winds she disappeared
          F                            Cm
Though we searched round and round the branches
           G          Bb    C          G
Rolling in leaves and naked  neath the trees
            Bb  C           G
we lost the way back to our village

Cm Gm

      Eb                        Bb
But I swear we were all pure of heart
          F             Cm
till that old crone did bewitch us
      G       Bb   C      G
And I know we will all go home
         Bb        C          G
when the good Lord returns to save us

Cm Gm
Bb C G