Lost Girls chords by CocoRosie

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

This song has difficult timing, but a simple chord structure. A augmentedA good one from CocoRosie!

Intro:
A augmentedA           B minorBm         C# minorC#m
Warming the hearts of tragic hoodlum spirits      (Flute plays around in D MajorD until noted below)
          D MajorD
Brighten the eyes of petty thieves who crawl at night
N.C.
Who feign to use a knife
N.C.
Jingle jangle the cosmos are on fire
N.C.
The blazing lines of the criminal choir
N.C.
Rejoiced to be alive
N.C.
Broken and depraved
N.C.
Sullied mop and rusted pail
       A augmentedA                B minorBm
Centuries of poison to escape this heaven or hell
         C# minorC#m         D MajorD
This earthly cell of dead flowers and so many wounded foes
N.C.
It's hard to remember fantasy or horror
N.C
Unwanted caresses
N.C
Little Lolitas who want to be held in large hands
N.C
Dear Father, who art in heaven
N.C.
Hollow be thy name
    A augmentedA              B minorBm
Witches confused by their own magic
                   C# minorC#m
Witches displeased by their own perfume
   D MajorD
Shame-locked women
N.C.
Shaman women fuming with shame
N.C
Love-locked women
N.C.
Women their own magic women
N.C.
Shadow body, shadow spirit
   D MajorD
White blood, blue night       (Start fast piano and stop flute)
A augmentedA
Angels lyrics
B minorBm           F#F#
Female creature wilted high in the raftors
D MajorD         A augmentedA
Orgies of dust and butterfly laughter
B minorBm                F#F#
Shadows spilling into the babe's milk
              D MajorD
Starry eyes of ghost's memoir
        A augmentedA
Four blue plus two, that makes six
B minorBm
That's twelve times two
 F#F#
Two brown eyes, one green
D MajorD
Hazel's asleep in the hayloft
A augmentedA               B minorBm
Down the road drowning in dry grass
              F#F#
In the sweet maiden's lap poisened with nightshade
    D MajorD
Witches last laugh

Chorus:
      A augmentedA
Stick your thumb out
       B minorBm
Lift up your skirt
             F#F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna take you home

D MajorD            A augmentedA
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna take you home

Verse:
D MajorD
Even though red's not your color
A augmentedA
I'll dress you in feathers
  B minorBm
And fly you in the windy weather
    F#F#            D MajorD
Like a child bird marooned on an island of cats
A augmentedA
Little dewy brawling cats
   B minorBm
With cross-eyes and hats
   F#F#
They take mercy on you
   D MajorD
They take you for walks
   A augmentedA             B minorBm
The mercy choir singing dismal hymns watery bible rhymes
   F#F#
All jumbled a mess
D MajorD              A augmentedA          B minorBm F#F#
A augmentedA mess of bright graves and flowers and balloons

Chorus: (Play twice)
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
B minorBm              F#F#
Someone's bound to stop here soon
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Take down your hair and wind up your grin
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna take you home

Verse:
    D MajorD
With a knapsack of trinkets
  A augmentedA
I'm off to seek my fortune again
B minorBm
Chasing ghosts of dead orphans
F#F#
Friend, cousin, or kin
  D MajorD
We wave to the passer by
A augmentedA
Moth wings of a butterfly
 B minorBm
Endless tracks where no car pass
 F#F#
Close your eyes and you can fly
  D MajorD
I'm off to meet my soul mate
  A augmentedA
A majorA naked fawny jailbait
B minorBm
Wading into ponds
      F#F#
Filled with pollywogs at dawn
 D MajorD
Mournin' the light
   A augmentedA
That slipped from my eyes
 B minorBm
A augmentedA little child with dirty nails
F#F#
And dirty hair
   D MajorD               A augmentedA  B minorBm F#F#
I had dirty things scrawled upon my mind

Instrumental:
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm F#F#

Chorus: (Play four times)
D MajorD            A augmentedA
Stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna stop here soon
D MajorD          A augmentedA
Take down your hair, wind up your grin
B minorBm            F#F#
Someone's gonna take you home