Chords for The Handsome Family - My Sister's Tiny Hands

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_ _ _ _ We [C] came in this world [Am] together, _ _ [G] legs wrapped around [Am] each other.
[F] My cheek against my sister's, we [C] were born like [Am] tangled eyes.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] We lived along [Am] a river, _ [G] where the black clouds never [Am] _ lingered.
[F] The sunlight spread like honey through [C] my sister's [Am] tiny hands.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ But [C] while picking sour [Am] apples, _ [G] in the wild [Am] waving grasses,
_ [F] Sister stumbled in a [C] briar and was hit [Am] by a snake.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Every creature [Am] casts a [Am] shadow under [G] the sun's golden [C] finger.
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.
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_ [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 rusty [Am] gas can [G] and an old [Am] iron shovel.
_ [F] I set the woods to burning and [C] choked the [G] river up with stone.
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_ [G] Every creature [Am] casts a shadow [G] under the sun's [C] golden finger.
But when [G] the sun sinks [Am] past the waving grass, [G] some shadows [A] are dragged along.
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