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My Sister's Tiny Hands

from Cheap and Sunny by Fast Heart Mart

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This is a song by "The Handsome Family".

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We came in this world together
Legs wrapped 'round each other
My cheek against my sister's We were born like tangled vine
We lived along the river
Where the black clouds never lingered
The sunlight spread like honey
Through my sister's tiny hands
But while picking sour apples
In the wild waving grasses
Sister stumbled in the brier And was bitten by a snake

Every creature casts a shadow Under the sun's golden finger But when the sun sinks past the waving grass Some shadows are dragged along

Alone, I took to drinking
Bottles of cheap whiskey
And staggering through the back woods
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick
But still I heard her laughing
In the wild waving grasses
Still her tiny hands went splashing At the river's sparkling shore
So I took my rusty gas can
And an old iron shovel
I set the woods to burning And choked the river up with stones

Every creature casts a shadow Under the sun's golden finger But when the sun sinks past the waving grass Some shadows are dragged along

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from Cheap and Sunny, released April 20, 2008
Roblyn Crawford drums
Tanya F. Nunez on upright and bowed bass

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