The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family
[Verse 1]
Lovely Mary, sweetie
That famous window smasher
Was just a quiet gloom of yodel-eh-hi-hi
From across Wisconsin
She took a pitch of cocaine
But only for her nerves
Was known for trembling hands
A little bottle in her purse
[Chorus]
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but see
All the things that hide inside
All the pretty trees
[Verse 2]
At dusk she took the train
Just a hammer in her bag
She went from town to town, yodel-eh-hi-hi
Smashing every plain of glass
Store fronts mirrors, windshields
Shattered in the night
Her hammer through a window's gleam
Filled the air with light
[Chorus]
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but free
All the things that hide inside
All the pretty trees
[Mandolin solo]
[Chorus]
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but free
All the things that hide inside
All the pretty trees
[Verse 3]
In a state asylum
The windows caged in bars
The soaked her in a nice cold bath
Til she was seeing stars
Wrapped up in her straitjacket
Her mind still hammered on
Until the glasses that are smashed, yodel-eh-hi-hi
And she flew off into the trees
[Chorus]
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but see
All the things that hide inside
All the pretty trees