Christina the astonishing   Lived a long time ago   She was stricken with a seizure   At the age of twenty-two   They took her body in a coffin   To a tiny church in liege   Where she sprang up from the coffin   Just after the agnus dei   She soared up to the rafters   Perched on a beam up there   Cried 'the stink of human sin   Is more that I can bear'   Christina the astonishing   Was the most astonishing of all   She prayed balanced on a hurdle   Or curled up into a ball   She fled to remote places   Climbed towers and trees and walls   To escape the stench of human corruption   Into an oven she did crawl   O christina the astonishing   Behaved in a terrifying way   She would run wildly through the streets   Jump in the meusse and swim away   O christina the astonishing   Behaved in terrifying manner   Died at the age of seventy-four   In the convent of st anna