Intro: alternate picking verse 1: Lovely Mary Sweeney, the famous window smasher Was just a quiet school marm - Oh de lay ee ee from Lacrosse, Wisconsin verse 2: She took a pinch of cocaine but only for her nerves Laudanum for trembling hands, a little bottle in her purse She was a woodpecker, she couldn't help but see All the things that hide inside all the pretty trees verse 3: At dusk she took a train just a hammer in her bag She went from town to town - Oh de lay ee ee smashing every pane of glass Pre-Chorus Storefronts, mirrors, windshields shattered in the night A hammer through a window’s gleam filled the air with light She was a woodpecker, she couldn't help but free All the things that hide inside all the pretty trees INTERLUDE: She was a woodpecker, she couldn't help but free All the things that hide inside all the pretty trees verse 4: In the state asylum the windows caged in bars They soaked her in an ice-cold bath till she was seeing stars Pre-Chorus Wrapped up in her straitjacket her mind still hammered on Till the glass inside her smashed - Oh de lay ee ee and she flew off into the trees She was a woodpecker, she couldn't help but see All the things that hide inside all the pretty trees OUTRO: alternate picking
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