My Sisters Tiny Hands chords by The Handsome Family

[Intro]
Am

C        G    Am
We came in this world together

G            Am
Legs wrapped 'round each other

F
My cheek against my sister's

     C    G    Am
We were born like tangled vine

C     G     Am
We lived along the river

     G          Am
Where the black clouds never lingered

   F
The sunlight spread like honey

      C    G  Am
Through my sister's tiny hands

C         G   Am
But while picking sour apples

  G        Am
In the wild waving grasses

    F
Sister stumbled in the brier

    C   G  Am
And was bitten by a snake

[Bridge]
F Am


[Chorus]
G           Am
Every creature casts a shadow

G            C
Under the sun's golden finger
G                Am
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass

G             Am
Some shadows are dragged along


C    G    Am
Alone, I took to drinking

G        Am
Bottles of cheap whiskey

   F
And staggering through the back woods

     C      G     Am
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick

C      G     Am
But still I heard her laughing

    G       Am
In the wild waving grasses

     F
Still her tiny hands went splashing

    C    G    Am
At the river's sparkling shore

C      G   Am
So I took my rusty gas can

G        Am
And an old iron shovel

  F
I set the woods to burning

        C  G    Am
And choked the river up with stones


[Bridge]
F Am


[Chorus]
G           Am
Every creature casts a shadow

G            C
Under the sun's golden finger

G                Am
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass

G             Am
Some shadows are dragged along