Snow-hen Of Austerlitz Lyrics - Sister Kinderhook - Rasputina

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