Little Sister Lyrics

Little Sister lyrics

My sister sent me to 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
And 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 to scold
me
I told I'd seen you up 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 damn
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 hell.

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.
And I didn't hear you, I
didn't even try
I was a hundred yards away and I thought you'd run off
somewhere to play.

The ground was clay, we dug a shallow grave.
And
laid ourselves to sleep, there just outside the fields where we once
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.