Chords for My Sisters Tiny Hands

_ _ _ _ _ _ We _ _ _ _ [C] came in this world [Am] _ together, _ [G] _ legs wrapped around [Am] each other.
[F] My cheek against my sister's, [C] we were born like [Am] tangled [F] eyes. _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] We lived along [Am] a river, [G] where the black clouds [Am] never lingered.
[F] The sunlight spread like honey [C] through my [Am] sister's lining hair.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] But while picking [Am] sour apples, [G] in the wild [Am] waving grasses,
_ [F] Sister stumbled in a [C] briar and was bitten [Am] by a snake.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Every creature [Am] casts a shadow under [G] the sun's golden [C] _ fingers.
But [G] when the sun sinks [Am] past the waving grass, [G] some shadows are [Am] dragged along. _ _ _ _
_ [C] Alone I took [Am] to drinking _ [G] _ bottles of [Am] cheap whiskey.
[F] And staggering through the [C] backwoods, killing snakes with a [Am] sharpened stick.
[F] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] But still I heard [Am] her laughing [G] in those wild [Am] waving grasses. _
[F] Still her tiny hands went splashing [C] at the river's [Am] sparkling shore.
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[C] So I took my [Am] rusty gas can [G] and an old [Am] iron shovel. _
[F] I set the woods to burning and [C] choked the river [Am] up with stone.
[F] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] Every creature [Am] casts a shadow [G] under the sun's golden [C] fingers.
But [G] when the sun sinks [Am] past the waving grass, [G] some shadows are [A] dragged along.
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