Annabelle

annabelle ( gillian welch ) track 2 from "revival" ( almo , amsd - 80006 ) Verse 1 : Am F we lease twenty acres and one ginny mule E7 Am >from the alabama trust Am F for half of the cotton and a third of the corn E7 Am we get a handful of dust Chorus : F C G Am we cannot have all things to please us , no matter how we try F C G Am F C G Am F E7 Am until we’ve all gone to jesus , we can only wonder why Verse 2 : 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 ) Verse 3 : 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 only got these words on a stone ( Chorus )