Guy Clark - The death of sis draper
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Sis Draper had a guitar player
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Named Kentucky Sue
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And everywhere old Sis played
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Sue was picking too
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They worked their way from Gtown to town
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Fiddled their way out west
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And every place she Gblew through
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They said she was the best
AmThey played the dances, played the bars
GBeneath the Western stars
AmSis was getting on in years
GShe lived it pretty hard
AmBurned both ends of the candle
E7And broke many a heart
Now out in Old New Mexico
Snowstorm coming on
They thought theyâd just wait it out
And play the El Patron
Now some old gal with coal black eyes
Was in a jealous tiff
She was quite sure her old man
Was slipping round with Sis
She was a waitress at the El Patron
Out on the edge of town
She poisoned Sisâs whiskey
And Sis just drank it down
Sis started feeling poorly
So she laid her fiddle down
Out behind the El Patron
They dug a shallow grave
Laid her down beneath the ground
The fiddle in the coffin case
The fiddle in the coffin case
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove
On her old beat-up guitar
Tears rolling down her face
She took it pretty hard
Now somewhere in the distance
You could hear the mission bells
Some folks go to heaven
Some folks go to hell
Sis Draper went to Arkansas
Thatâs all there is to tell