Death Of Sis Draper chords by Melissa Carper

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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

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