My Sister's Tiny Hands Tab par 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