The Tiger Lillies - Hertha Strubb lyrics
[The Tiger Lillies - Hertha Strubb lyrics]
Hertha Strubb - where can she be?
She would have been just twenty-three
Was she murdered by cut-throats
Lurking in her room? Why did she not return
On that Sunday afternoon?
Did she elope with a man she’d
Been seen with in November?
To an early grave did he send her?
Did she join an obscure religious cult
With ritual mass suicide as the result?
Was she burned as a heretic at the stake
Or does she lie in the
Baptist cemetery in Ohio state?
Does she suffer from amnesia
Live in another state?
Does she lie bleeding on
A mendicant knife-grinder's floor?
Or did she perish on some rocky shore?
Did she fall down a manhole
Left open by mistake?
Or did she choke on a piece of fruit cake?
She would have been just twenty-three
Was she murdered by cut-throats
Lurking in her room? Why did she not return
On that Sunday afternoon?
Did she elope with a man she’d
Been seen with in November?
To an early grave did he send her?
Did she join an obscure religious cult
With ritual mass suicide as the result?
Was she burned as a heretic at the stake
Or does she lie in the
Baptist cemetery in Ohio state?
Does she suffer from amnesia
Live in another state?
Does she lie bleeding on
A mendicant knife-grinder's floor?
Or did she perish on some rocky shore?
Did she fall down a manhole
Left open by mistake?
Or did she choke on a piece of fruit cake?