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Death Of Sis Draper by Melissa Carper & Rebecca Patek
Death Of Sis Draper
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: G
[Intro]
Am G
Am G Am
[Verse 1]
Am G
Sis Draper had a guitar player
Am
Her name Kentucky Sue
G
And everywhere old Sis played
Am
Sue was picking too
[Verse 2]
Am G
She worked her way from town to town
Am
Fiddlin'' way out west
G
Everywhere she blew through
Am
They said she was the best
[Chorus]
G
They played the dances, played the bars
Am
Out under Western stars
G
Sis was getting on in years
Am
She lived it pretty hard
G
She burned both ends of the candle
Em7 Am G
And broke many hearts
[Verse 3]
Am G
Now out in old New Mexico
Am
There was a snowstorm coming on
G
Decided just to wait it out
Am
And play the El Patron
[Verse 4]
G
Now there was some old gal with coal black eyes
Am
She was in a jealous tiff
G
She was quite sure her old man
Am
Was slipping round with Sis
[Chorus]
G
She was a waitress at the El Patron
Am
Out on the edge of town
G
She poisoned Sis''s whiskey
Am
And Sis just drank it down
G
She started to feeling poorly
Em Am
So she laid her fiddle down
G Am G Am
[Verse 5]
G
Out behind the El Patron
Am
They dug a shallow grave
G
Laid her down beneath that ground
Am
With the fiddle in the coffin case
G Am
They put the fiddle in the coffin case
[Chorus]
G
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove
Am
On her old beat-up guitar
G
Tears streaming down her face
Am
She took it pretty hard
G
There''s somewhere in the distance
Am
You could hear the mission bells
G
Some folks go to heaven
Am
And some folks go to hell
[Outro]
G
Sis Draper went to Arkansas
Em Am
That''s all there is to tell
Am G Am
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