slobberbone - little sister lyrics
my sister sent me, come and get you in
it’s time to take your dinner and you know
you’re to come in when your called
i can see you up on the highest limb
the sky looks to be stormin’
and you’ll be cold by mornin’
when i returned without you
her head was filled with words
her tongue could not withhold, see
so she let them fly and scold me
i told i’d seen out on the highest limb
she said the night was stormin’
and you’d be dead by mornin’
little sister, where have you gone?
in the night i hear you cryin’
and the days are so d-mn long
sometimes i wish that i could’ve gone
instead of you and i wonder if you
were sittin’ here, would you be wishin’ that too
the woods were damp and the air was green
a beautiful spring morning, now
what could serve as warning
and i’d often seen it, rotten wood
and broken bricks, a long rope and a pail
and a hole going straight to h-ll
and your big brother, you’d do anything to catch his smile
but you couldn’t catch him runnin’
so you’d just duck and hide for awhile
i didn’t hear you, i didn’t even try
i was a hundred yards away
i thought you’d run off somewhere to play
little sister, where have you gone?
in the night i hear you cryin’
and the days are so d-mn long
sometimes i wish that i could’ve gone
instead of you and i wonder if you
were sittin’ here, would you be wishin’ that too
ground was clay, we dug a shallow grave
and laid ourselves to sleep, there just outside
the fields where we had played
and i remember, the way we mourned and cried
and tried to start the healing
but what the stone was revealing was a lie
’cause it was i
little sister, where have you gone?
in the night i hear you cryin’
and the days are so d-mn long
sometimes i wish that i were
laying here with you and i wonder if that were so
would you be ridin’ like me
little sister, where have you gone?
in the night i hear you cryin’
and the days are so d-mn long
sometimes i wish that i were
laying here with you and i wonder if that were so
would you be ridin’ like me too, like me too
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