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C   G       Am
Am  G   Am
C   G       Am


[Verse 1]
Am               G
Sis Draper had a guitar player
Am
Named Kentucky Sue
      C          G
And everywhere  old Sis played
                Am
Sue was picking too


[Verse 2]
Am                           G
They worked their way from town to town
Am
Fiddled their way out west
     C               G
And every place she blew through
                      Am
They said she was the best


[Chorus]
       G
They played the dances, played the bars
    Am
Beneath the Western stars
 G
Sis was getting on in years
      Am
She lived it pretty hard
        G
Burned both ends of the candle
     Em           Am
And broke many a heart


[Instrumental]
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G   Am
G   Am  C   Am   C
G   Am


[Verse 3]
     Am             G
Now out in Old New Mexico
 Am
Snowstorm coming on
  C                       G
They thought they'd just wait it out
                   Am
And play the El Patron


[Verse 4]
     Am                G
Now some old gal with coal black eyes
    Am
Was in a jealous tiff
     C              G
She was quite sure her old man
                        Am
Was slipping round with Sis


[Chorus]
            G
She was a waitress at the El Patron
    Am
Out on the edge of town
     G
She poisoned Sis's whiskey
    Am
And Sis just drank it down
     G
Sis started feeling poorly
        Em              Am
So she laid her fiddle down


[Instrumental]
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G   Am
G   Am  C   Am   C
G   Am


[Verse 5]
Am             G
Out behind the El Patron
      Am
They dug a shallow grave
 C                 G
Laid her down beneath the ground
                          Am
The fiddle in the coffin case
           G                   Am
With the fiddle in the coffin case


[Verse 6]
    Am               G
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove
        Am
On her old beat-up guitar
 C              G
Tears rolling down her face
                    Am
She took it pretty hard


[Chorus]
      G
Now somewhere in the distance
           Am
You could hear the mission bells
 G
Some folks go to heaven
 Am
Some folks go to hell
      G
Sis Draper went to Arkansas
           Em               Am
And that's all there is to tell


[Instrumental]
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G   Am
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G   Am