Death of Sis Draper
Melissa Carper Rebecca Patek
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Sis Draper had a guitar player named Kentucky Sue
Everywhere Altus played Sue was picking too
She worked her way from town to town fiddling way out west
Everywhere she blew through they said she was the best
They played the dances, played the bars out on the western stars
Sis was getting on and you knew she lived it pretty hard
She burned both ends of the candle and broke many hearts
Out in old New Mexico there was a snowstorm coming on
They decided just to wait it out and play the El Patron
Now there was some old gal with coal
Black eyes she was in a jealous tiff
She was quite sure her old man was slipping around with Sis
She was a waitress at the El Patron out on the edge of town
She poisoned Sis's whiskey and Sis just drank it down
She started to feeling poorly so she laid her fiddle down
Out behind the El Patron they dug a shallow grave
Laid her down beneath that ground
Put the fiddle in the coffin case
They put the fiddle in the coffin case
Kentucky Sue played Shady Grove on her old beat up guitar
Tears streaming down her face she took it pretty hard
There was somewhere in the distance you could hear the mission bell
Some folks go to heaven and some folks go to hell
Sis Draper went to Arkansas and that's all there is to tell