Whitehaven chords by The Handsome Family

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What a hideous forest surrounded Whitehaven
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Twisted black mountains, wolves howled in madness
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Never I ventured beyond the stone tower
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As dusk spread her black wings at the edge of the dark wild wood

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But one windy evening, gathering timbers
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Under white elm trees in shadows, I saw her
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The darkest of beauties with her basket of cherries
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The wind at her black skirt like the hands of the wild dark wood

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She turned in her terror, a madness possessed us
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In shadow she clawed me, we screamed in the brambles
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Hunters came running with torches and axes
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Treetop to treetop, flames tore through the dark wild wood

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Back down they dragged us past the stone towers
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The church bells were ringing, the sky screamed in flashes
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But we stood in the churchyard laughing like jackals
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As the stone towers tumbled and bowed to the wild dark wood

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