Snow-Hen of Austerlitz

Song Snow-Hen of Austerlitz
Artist Rasputina
Album Sister Kinderhook

Lyrics

They say not far away,
In fact upon that hill
They say that there's a little girl there still
She wasn't raised like the other kids
Miss Lynn, the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
The mother's blind and keeps some birds as pets
That her baby is a human she forgets
In a tiny wire pen that little girl still sits
Miss Lynn, the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
She must be ten or eleven now
I heard she's pretty but she don't have all her wits
She is the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
Not having really neither wings nor beak
She never learned to walk or speak
To the child, the mother never says a word
To communicate, this little girl, she chirps like a bird
All the birds around they taught the little girl their language
When she's not understood she starts to get real angry
So she waves her hands around just like they were her wings
Hope it when she's happy, you should hear her sing!
I'll leave the cage door open
We'll see how far she gets
She's known as the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
Kept like a pet in an old hen coop
The mother didn't beat her and she gave her food
Still pitiful no care shown but it's
The life of the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
A skinny thing with brittle glass-like bones
Was it wind in the trees or the
Snow Hen's moans?
From pursed perch from that attic she flits
Miss Lynn, the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
She must be ten or eleven now
I heard she's pretty but she don't have all her wits
She is the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
I'll leave the cage door open
We'll see how far she gets
She's known as the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
She must be ten or eleven now
I heard she's pretty but she don't have all her wits
She is the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz
I'll leave the cage door open
We'll see how far she gets
She's known as the
Snow Hen of
Austerlitz