Strum Em gently, then strum hard just before you come into the verse - listen to the you'll see what I mean Verse 1: Em G D Em G

^DWe came in ^Emthis world together, legs wrapped round each other, My ^Ccheek against my sister's we were ^Gborn like tangled ^Emvine

(Repeat this pattern through verses) We lived along the river where the black clouds never linger The sunlight spread like honey through my sister's tiny hands But while picking sour apples, in the wild waving grasses Sister stumbled in a briar and was bitten by a snake Chorus:

Every ^Dcreature casts a ^Emshadow under the ^Dsun's golden ^Gfingers But when the ^Dsun sinks past the ^Emwaving grass some ^Dshadows are ^Emdragged along

Verse 2: Alone I took to drinking bottles of cheap whisky And staggering through the backwoods killing snakes with a sharpened stake But still I heard her laughing in the wild waving grasses Still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore So I took my rusty gas can and an old iron shovel I set the woods to burning I choked the river up with stones Chorus

The Handsome Family - My sisters tiny hands