Death Of Sis Draper chords by Melissa Carper

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A minorAm  G+G
A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm


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

Verse 2:
A minorAm            G+G
She worked her way from town to town
A minorAm
Fiddlin' way out west
      G+G
Everywhere she blew through
           A minorAm
They said she was the best


Chorus:
   G+G
They played the dances, played the bars
   A minorAm
Out under Western stars
 G+G
Sis was getting on in years
   A minorAm
She lived it pretty hard
      G+G
She burned both ends of the candle
   E minor 7Em7     A minorAm   G+G
And broke many hearts


Verse 3:
A minorAm           G+G
  Now out in old New Mexico
       A minorAm
There was a snowstorm coming on
         G+G
Decided just to wait it out
         A minorAm
And play the El Patron

Verse 4:
                 G+G
Now there was some old gal with coal black eyes
           A minorAm
She was in a jealous tiff
          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
She started to feeling poorly
    E minorEm       A minorAm
So she laid her fiddle down
 G+G  A minorAm G+G  A minorAm


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


Chorus:
           G+G
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove
    A minorAm
On her old beat-up guitar
         G+G
Tears streaming down her face
          A minorAm
She took it pretty hard
     G+G
There's somewhere in the distance
      A minorAm
You could hear the mission bells
 G+G
Some folks go to heaven
   A minorAm
And some folks go to hell


Outro:
   G+G
Sis Draper went to Arkansas
    E minorEm       A minorAm
That's all there is to tell

A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm