Guy Clark – The Death Of Sis Draper (Guitar)

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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 town to town

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Fiddled their way out west

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And every place she blew through

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They said she was the best

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They played the dances, played the bars

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Beneath the Western stars

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Sis was getting on in years

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She lived it pretty hard

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Burned both ends of the candle

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And broke many a heart

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Now out in Old New Mexico

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Snowstorm coming on

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They thought they'd just wait it out

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And play the El Patron

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Now some old gal with coal black eyes

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Was in a jealous tiff

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She was quite sure her old man

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Was slipping round with Sis

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She was a waitress at the El Patron

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Out on the edge of town

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She poisoned Sis's whiskey

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And Sis just drank it down

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Sis started feeling poorly

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So she laid her fiddle down

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Out behind the El Patron

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They dug a shallow grave

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Laid her down beneath the ground

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The fiddle in the coffin case

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With the fiddle in the coffin case

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Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove

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On her old beat-up guitar

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Tears rolling down her face

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She took it pretty hard

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Now somewhere in the distance

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You could hear the mission bells

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Some folks go to heaven

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Some folks go to hell

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Sis Draper went to Arkansas

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And that's all there is to tell