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Poor Sister Cry Lyrics by Junior Sisk

Load the Wagon

2020

[Verse 1]
I know not my father, though pictures have I
There's only my mother, my sister, and I
And a small lonely cabin, near the woods and a stream
We witness such terrible things
The man took an interest in Mama so dear
She had me in trouble in only four years
While Mama was workin’, he came to our home
And hurt us while Mama was gone
[Chorus]
In the sad ole cool waters that run through the stream
Where the willows cry sadly for sins they have seen
His face towards the heavens, in judgment he lays
For making my poor sister cry
[Verse 2]
I told my poor Mama, of the deed I had done
Our bodies were beaten, our innocence gone
I stabbed him, I slit him with my pocketknife
For making my poor sister cry
God up in Heaven had mercy on me
With no-one to save us, 'twas all up to me
I never had planned it, to take a man's life
But he made my poor sister cry
[Chorus]
In the sad ole cool waters that run through the stream
Where the willows cry sadly for sins they have seen
His face towards the heavens, in judgment he lays
For making my poor sister cry
But he made my poor sister cry
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Junior Sisk

Junior Sisk

About “Poor Sister Cry” by Junior Sisk

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"Poor Sister Cry" appears on "Load the Wagon" in 2020.

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