The Death Of Sis Draper chords by Guy Clark

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A minorAm G+G  A minorAm
C majorC  G+G    A minorAm
Am G+G  A minorAm
C majorC  G+G    A minorAm


Verse 1:
A minorAm        G+G
Sis Draper had a guitar player
A minorAm
Named Kentucky Sue
   C majorC     G+G
And everywhere old Sis played
        A minorAm
Sue was picking too

Verse 2:
A minorAm              G+G
They worked their way from town to town
A minorAm
Fiddled their way out west
   C majorC        G+G
And every place she blew through
           A minorAm
They said she was the best


Chorus:
    G+G
They played the dances, played the bars
  A minorAm
Beneath the Western stars
 G+G
Sis was getting on in years
   A minorAm
She lived it pretty hard
    G+G
Burned both ends of the candle
   E minorEm      A minorAm
And broke many a heart


Instrumental:
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm

Verse 3:
   A minorAm       G+G
Now out in Old New Mexico
 A minorAm
Snowstorm coming on
 C majorC            G+G
They thought they'd just wait it out
          A minorAm
And play the El Patron


Verse 4:
   A minorAm        G+G
Now some old gal with coal black eyes
  A minorAm
Was in a jealous tiff
   C majorC       G+G
She was quite sure her old man
            A minorAm
Was slipping round with Sis


Chorus:
      G+G
She was a waitress at the El Patron
  A minorAm
Out on the edge of town
   G+G
She poisoned Sis's whiskey
  A minorAm
And Sis just drank it down
   G+G
Sis started feeling poorly
    E minorEm       A minorAm
So she laid her fiddle down


Instrumental:
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm


Verse 5:
A minorAm       G+G
Out behind the El Patron
   A minorAm
They dug a shallow grave
 C majorC         G+G
Laid her down beneath the ground
             A minorAm
The fiddle in the coffin case
      G+G          A minorAm
With the fiddle in the coffin case


Verse 6:
  A minorAm        G+G
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove
    A minorAm
On her old beat-up guitar
 C majorC       G+G
Tears rolling down her face
          A minorAm
She took it pretty hard


Chorus:
   G+G
Now somewhere in the distance
      A minorAm
You could hear the mission bells
 G+G
Some folks go to heaven
 A minorAm
Some folks go to hell
   G+G
Sis Draper went to Arkansas
      E minorEm        A minorAm
And that's all there is to tell


Instrumental:
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm
G+G  A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC
G+G  A minorAm
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