Tiger Lillies – Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht chords

  Tiger Lillies - Drowning Girl (Bertolt Brecht)


Gm                               CmOnce she had drowned and started her slow descent
Cm                                         GmDown the streams to where the great rivers broaden
Gm                     CmOh, the open sky chant most magnificent
Cm                                GmAs if it was acting as her body's guardian

Cm                         DWreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight
Cm                 DBy clasping her in their slimy grip
Cm                                  DThrough her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played
Cm                                       DCreatures and plant life kept on, thus obstructing her last trip

Gm                                 CmAnd the sky that same evening grew dark as smoke
Cm                                                        GmAnd its stars through the night kept the brightness still soaring
Gm                             CmBut it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke
Cm                              GmTo see that she had one further morning

Cm                               DOnce her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair
Cm                                DIt happened quite slowly that she slipped from God's thoughts
Cm                                                DFirst with her face, then her hands, right at the last with her hair
Cm                          D                    GmLeaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse


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