Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Gillian Welch
Canonical path: /gillian-welch/annabelle
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Annabelle
Read Annabelle lyrics by Gillian Welch on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Annabelle
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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
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Gillian Welch performs "Annabelle", and this lyric page sits inside the Gillian Welch catalog on LyroVerse.
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