Annabelle lyrics

Song information

Artist: Gillian Welch
Album: Revival

Lyrics

We lease twenty acres and one ginny mule
From the alabama trust
For half of the cotton and a third of the corn
We get a handful of dust

Chorus:
We cannot have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to jesus
We can only wonder why

I had a daughter called her annabelle
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
Didn't want to ever hear her cry

Chorus

When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears
From every day I've ever known
Anna's in the churchyard she got no life at all
She's only got these words on a stone

Chorus

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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