Christina The Astonishing

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Christina the Astonishing
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Lived a long time ago

She was stricken with a seizure
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At the age of twenty-two

They took her body in a coffin
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To a tiny church in Liege

Where she sprang up from the coffin
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Just after the Agnus Dei

She soared up to the rafters
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Perched on a beam up there

Cried "The stink of human sin

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The stink Is more that I can bear"

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt
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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh

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Christina the Astonishing
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Was the most astonishing of all

She prayed balanced on a hurdle
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Or curled up into a ball

She fled to remote places
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Climbed towers and trees and walls

To escape the stench of human corruption
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Into an oven she did crawl

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt
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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh

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O Christina the Astonishing
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Behaved in a terrifying way

She would run wildly through the streets
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Jump in the Meuse and swim away

O Christina the Astonishing
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Behaved in terrifying manner

Died at the age of seventy-four
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In the convent of St Anna

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt

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Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh