Guy Clark – The Death Of Sis Draper chords

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[Intro]

Am  G   Am

C   G       Am

Am  G   Am

C   G       Am

 

 

[Verse 1]

Am               G

Sis Draper had a guitar player

Am

Named Kentucky Sue

      C          G

And everywhere  old Sis played

                Am

Sue was picking too

 

 

[Verse 2]

Am                           G

They worked their way from town to town

Am

Fiddled their way out west

     C               G

And every place she blew through

                      Am

They said she was the best

 

 

[Chorus]

       G

They played the dances, played the bars

    Am

Beneath the Western stars

 G

Sis was getting on in years

      Am

She lived it pretty hard

        G

Burned both ends of the candle

     Em           Am

And broke many a heart

 

 

[Instrumental]

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

 

 

[Verse 3]

     Am             G

Now out in Old New Mexico

 Am

Snowstorm coming on

  C                       G

They thought they'd just wait it out

                   Am

And play the El Patron

 

 

[Verse 4]

     Am                G

Now some old gal with coal black eyes

    Am

Was in a jealous tiff

     C              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

Sis started feeling poorly

        Em              Am

So she laid her fiddle down

 

 

[Instrumental]

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

 

 

[Verse 5]

Am             G

Out behind the El Patron

      Am

They dug a shallow grave

 C                 G

Laid her down beneath the ground

                          Am

The fiddle in the coffin case

           G                   Am

With the fiddle in the coffin case

 

 

[Verse 6]

    Am               G

Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove

        Am

On her old beat-up guitar

 C              G

Tears rolling down her face

                    Am

She took it pretty hard

 

 

[Chorus]

      G

Now somewhere in the distance

           Am

You could hear the mission bells

 G

Some folks go to heaven

 Am

Some folks go to hell

      G

Sis Draper went to Arkansas

           Em               Am

And that's all there is to tell

 

 

[Instrumental]

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

G   Am  C   Am   C

G   Am

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