Sisters | Susan Werner

🎵 Sisters | Susan Werner 🎵 - Length: 0:3:47

Sisters - Written by Susan Werner/Tish Hinojosa Recorded Live February 17, 2024 Live from Norfolk Street is an on-going concert series recorded live at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, Texas. Our live-streamed concert series is listener supported. For access to our catalog of full length shows, extras, encores, and interviews, become a contributing member at: https://livefromnorfolkstreet.com/ Lyrics: Back to back in the desert sand That's how they sleep in the evening Two twin girls grew up hand in hand With their lives interweaving One looks north and the other south They share the blood of the river One is lively but she is poor Takes what the rich one can give her They share the same church They sing the same songs They count the same stars And they will always belong Side by side in this storied land Of the cross and the lasso Sisters, sisters Juarez and El Paso With the sun from their father's side And the moon as their mother Bad men use them and break their hearts What hurts one hurts the other Close as kin, close as souls can be Still always something divides them Cruel as fate and as hard as steel Cannot break what's inside them They share the same church They sing the same songs They count the same stars And they will always belong Side by side in this storied land Of the cross and the lasso Sisters, sisters Juarez and El Paso