Annabelle Lyrics - Singles - Gillian Welch

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 

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 

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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 

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 

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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