Chords for Elizabeth Cook - Heroin Addict Sister (Live on KEXP)

_ I'm Don Slack, your listener swinging doors here on KEXP, and I'm so happy right now to have in the studio with me
Elizabeth Cook who is
_ Swinging through the Northwest and it's been well.
She's been here like once before a little obscure casino gig
This is like her first official time to spend a little time in the Northwest and very happy to have you up here
Thank you.
Good to be here.
I have enjoyed your music for a long long time
Well, thank you once again for coming on out if you'd like to play a couple of songs and we can chat a little bit
It'd be great.
[G] Okay.
Sure.
I'll do one _
Off the new record.
This is a it's called heroin addict sister. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] She asked [D] for
_ [G] Mama's bathroom _ _ [C] and a pot [D] of [G] potato soup
_ She gonna [C] dread [D] this [G] time if he kills her
She was a whole [D] family
_ [G] _ Yeah _
She [C] can ask [D] my dad [G] like a storm man.
She's [C] a cat
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ She's [C] my
_ [D] _ _ [G] Sister _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ She's _ [Am] my
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] Sister _ and [Am] I hate [D] to see her [G] go _ and [Am] I hate [D] to see
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] The end of the same
[G] _ _ She _
_ [D] pushes tiny [C] need _
It's like [D] _ devil's _ [C] DNA
_ _ It [D] takes us so [G] she just [C] gotta go [G] [D] but can't afford [G] to stay
She _ [C] stripped for [D] a while [G] in Connecticut
_ _ [C] And made [D] at least [G] five times
_ _ [C] One of [D] them it [G] was [C] crazy
Bad, [D] so she married a couple [G] of
_ She's _ [C] a certified [D] _ [G] underwater _ welder
She [C] can cook [G] [D] clean and [G] crochet
_ _ She can [C] [G] flash a [D]
smile [G] for sweet weary [C] soul
[D] That'll melt all your [G] doubts away _ _
[Am] She's my heroin [D] _ [G] addict sister _ and
[Am] I hate to [D] see [G] her go _ and
[Am] I hate [D] to see [G] her
holding [C] _ on [D] the
end of the same
[G] _ _ She's _
_ [D] high at the homeless [C] shelter _
_ And [D] she's had it out with my [C] _ niece
_ [D] She don't know the
[G] _ _ _ _ Clothes [D] of a perverted Orlando [G] _ place _
Then [C] some [D] man wanted [G] to kill so _ _ [C] what I [D] had [G] to
_ _ Such _ [C] crazy [G] _
stories, I can't
[Cm] _ So [D]
scared when [G] she's
_ She _
_ [D] _ called outside of [C] Atlanta
_ _ [D] And dodging a big [C] old truck
You [D] know, she'd clean up a Tennessee [G] one time
_ [D] She just needs a couple [G] hundred bucks _ and [C] she just needs to [D] be
[G] _ _ _
_ I'll [C] _ say [D] they ain't [G]
got mom
_ _ _ [C] Here [G] go [D] through [G] this time
_ _ [C] She's in heaven
[D] _ _ [G] making [C] counting cops
[D] Better give her [G] baby right _ _ and they got to
[D] _ [G] Just in time
_ _ She's [Am] my hell
[D] _
_ _ [G] _ Addison's
And [Am] I hate [D] to see her [G] go _
And [Am] I hate [D] to see
[G] _ _ _
[C] _ The [D] _ end the [G] same _ The _ _ [C] _ [D] end _ _ [G] _ _ Always
_ [Am] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] Elizabeth _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ cook on key XP one of the songs on her great new album welder a real powerful record
Love it.
Very wide-ranging to we'll chat more about that a bit join here in the studio by our longtime guitarist Tim Carroll
thank you guys again for coming by and love to hear another song and great _ _ _ _