Biography:
The Handsome Family is an alternative country and americana band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals), along with drummer Mike Werner. The band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music. Guest musicians complete the band line-up for recordings and live work.
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Other songs:
- 24 Hour Store
- Bottomless Hole
- Far From Any Road
- Far From Any Road (true Detective Theme)
- Lizard
- My Sister's Tiny Hands
- So Much Wine
- The Woman Downstairs
- Weightless Again
- 1 Country Song
- 3
- A Beautiful Thing
- A Dark Eye
- A Shadow Underneath
- A Thousand Diamond Rings
- After We Shot The Grizzly
- All The Time In Airports
- All The Tvs In Town
- Amelia Earhart Vs The Dancing Bear
- Arlene
- Back In My Day
- Beautiful William
- Big Bad Wolf
- Birds You Cannot See
- Bowling Alley Bar
- Bury Me Here
- Caterpillars
- Cathedrals
- Claire Said
- Cold Cold Cold
- Darling My Darling
- Dont Be Scared
- Down In The Ground
- Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs
- Drinking Beer On The Roof
- Drunk By Noon
- Dry Bones
- Eels
- Emily Shore 1819
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Fallen Peaches
- Far From Any Road True Detective Theme
- Flies
- Frogs
- Gail With The Golden Hair
- Gentlemen
- Giant Ant
- Giant Of Illinois
- Glow Worm
- Gold
- Grandmother Waits For You
- Gravity
- Green Willow Valley
- Gulls
- Happy Harvest
- Heres Hopin
- Honey Moon
- Hunter Green
- I Fell
- I Know You Are There
- In The Air
- June Bugs
- King Of Dust
- Lake Geneva
- Last Night I Went Out Walking
- Lie Down
- Linger Let Me Linger
- Love Is Like
- Moving Furniture Around
- My Beautiful Bride
- My Friend
- My Ghost
- My Sisters Tiny Hands
- No One Fell Asleep Alone
- Octopus
- One Way Up
- Our Blue Sky
- Owls
- Passenger Pigeons
- Peace In The Valley Once Again
- Pony
- Poor Poor Lenore
- She Awoke With A Jerk
- Sleepy
- Snowball
- Somewhere Else To Be
- Spider
- Stalled
- Teslas Hotel Room
- The Bottomless Hole
- The Dutch Boy
- The Forgotten Lake
- The House Carpenter
- The King Who Wouldnt Smile
- The Last
- The Loneliness Of Magnets
- The Lost Soul
- The Petrified Forest
- The Red Door
- The Red Leaf Forest
- The Sad Milkman
- The Sea Rose
- The Silver Light
- The Snow White Diner
- The Song Of 100 Toads
- The Song Of A Hundred Toads
- The White Dog
- The Winding Corn Maze
- There Is A Sound
- These Golden Jewels
- Tin Foil
- Tiny Tina
- Trail Of Time
- Underneath The Falls
- Unseen
- Up Falling Rock Hill
- Water Into Wine
- When It Rains
- When You Whispered
- Where The Birch Trees Lean
- White Lights
- Whitehaven
- Wild Wood
- Wildebeest
- Winnebago Skeletons
- Woman Downstairs
- Woodpecker
- Your Great Journey
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Starts with G to Gm
G Bb C G
Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch
Bb F
She lived high in the bramble forest
G Bb C G
Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right
Bb F
she came down to our little village
G Bb C G
She brought blackberries and willow bark
Bb F
mandrake root and mushrooms
G Bb C G
And it was said she spoke the tongue of birds
Bb F
And understood the river’s whispers
Eb Bb
Now several girls among our town
F Cm
by a golden lizard they were bitten
G Bb C G
And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beds
Bb C G
like frozen ice up on the branches
G Bb C G
Granny Green mixed a tonic for their ills
Bb F
but it was such a bitter tonic
G Bb C G
All who drank began to dance
Bb F
and could not stop their dancing
Cm Gm
But none would have danced one sinful step
Bb C G
If that old crone had not bewitched us
G Bb C G
Bb F
G Bb C G
How we leaped and pranced and cackled
Bb F
the whole town writhing madmen
Cm Gm
And so desperate grew some to still their feet
Bb C Gm
they dove into the raging river
Eb Bb
Still we danced on day and night
F Cm
till our fine clothes were torn and ragged
G Bb C G
And crying out, “Oh, Lord, make us stop!”
Bb C G
we danced naked round the chapel
G Bb C G
How Granny laughed to see such sin.
Bb F
“It’s just water,” she said, “in my tonic!”
G Bb C G
But all cried out, “She lies! She surely lies!”
Bb C G
and chased her deep into the bramble
Eb Bb
But like the four winds she disappeared
F Cm
Though we searched round and round the branches
G Bb C G
Rolling in leaves and naked ‘neath the trees
Bb C G
we lost the way back to our village
Cm Gm
Eb Bb
But I swear we were all pure of heart
F Cm
till that old crone did bewitch us
G Bb C G
And I know we will all go home
Bb C G
when the good Lord returns to save us
Cm Gm
Bb C G
G Bb C G
Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch
Bb F
She lived high in the bramble forest
G Bb C G
Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right
Bb F
she came down to our little village
G Bb C G
She brought blackberries and willow bark
Bb F
mandrake root and mushrooms
G Bb C G
And it was said she spoke the tongue of birds
Bb F
And understood the river’s whispers
Eb Bb
Now several girls among our town
F Cm
by a golden lizard they were bitten
G Bb C G
And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beds
Bb C G
like frozen ice up on the branches
G Bb C G
Granny Green mixed a tonic for their ills
Bb F
but it was such a bitter tonic
G Bb C G
All who drank began to dance
Bb F
and could not stop their dancing
Cm Gm
But none would have danced one sinful step
Bb C G
If that old crone had not bewitched us
G Bb C G
Bb F
G Bb C G
How we leaped and pranced and cackled
Bb F
the whole town writhing madmen
Cm Gm
And so desperate grew some to still their feet
Bb C Gm
they dove into the raging river
Eb Bb
Still we danced on day and night
F Cm
till our fine clothes were torn and ragged
G Bb C G
And crying out, “Oh, Lord, make us stop!”
Bb C G
we danced naked round the chapel
G Bb C G
How Granny laughed to see such sin.
Bb F
“It’s just water,” she said, “in my tonic!”
G Bb C G
But all cried out, “She lies! She surely lies!”
Bb C G
and chased her deep into the bramble
Eb Bb
But like the four winds she disappeared
F Cm
Though we searched round and round the branches
G Bb C G
Rolling in leaves and naked ‘neath the trees
Bb C G
we lost the way back to our village
Cm Gm
Eb Bb
But I swear we were all pure of heart
F Cm
till that old crone did bewitch us
G Bb C G
And I know we will all go home
Bb C G
when the good Lord returns to save us
Cm Gm
Bb C G
The Heligoats
The Hi Marks
The High Kings
The Highwaymen
The Hives
The Hootz
The Horrors
The Housemartins
The Hunger Games
The Hunna