The Handsome Family es un duo estadounidense de country-alternativo, la pareja la forma Brett y Rennie Sparks, algunos veces acompañados en las giras por un baterista. La banda se formó en Chicago a comienzos de los 90. Viven actualmente en Albuquerque, Nuevo Mexico. La mayoria de sus canciones estan escritas en una estricta separación de roles: Brett Sparks escribe la musica mientras Rennie, quien también es escritora, escribe las letras. Estas poseen una extrecha conexión con el género literario conocido como "gótico americano"
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
AmCGAm My name I don't remember though I hail from Ohio AmCFC I had a wife and children good tires on my car FCAm What took me from my home and put me in the earth FEAm Was the mouth of the deep dark hole I found behind my barn
AmCGAm We'd been filling it with garbage as long as you could count AmCFC Kitchen scraps and dead cows tractors broken down FCAm But never did I hear one thing hit the ground FEAm And slowly I came to fear that this was a bottomless hole
AmCGAm I went out behind the barn and stared down in that hole AmCFC Late into the evening my mind would not let go FCAm So I got out my ropes and a rusty claw foot tub FEAm And I rigged myself a chariot to ride down in that hole
AmCGAm My wife she did help me she fed me down the ropes AmCFC And then I sank away from the surface of this world FCAm When the last rope pulled tight I had not reached the end FEAm And in anger I swung there down in that dark abyss
AmCGAm So I got out my knife I told my wife goodbye AmCFC I cut loose from the ropes and fell on down that hole FCAm And still I am there falling down in this evil pit FEAm But until I hit the bottom I won't believe it's bottomless