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My Sisters Tiny Hands Tab

by The Handsome Family


There are some little stylistic riffs and whatnot, but I believe this is the main 
chord progression.  
I tried to line up the chord names with the respective syllables.  
Also, the chord progressions can seem physically awkward at times, but at tempo 
they sound right.   
If there's anything I screwed up, let me know.  Enjoy.

                                                  
We came in this world together, legs wrapped round each other,

                                                  
My cheek against my sister's we were born like tangled vine


                                                
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 creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden fingers

                                                          
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass some shadows are dragged 


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