Gillian Welch – Annabelle (Guitar)

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[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     
Until we've all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why
[Instrumental] F G Am [Verse 2]
Am               F
I had a daughter called her Annabelle 

E7                    Am
She's the apple of my eye

Am                          F
Tried to give her something like I never had

E7                           Am
Didn't want to ever hear her cry
[Chorus]
    F                        C             G             Am
We cannot have all things to please us, no matter how we try

            F           C              G           Am  
Until we've all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why
[Solo] F C G Am F C G Am F G Am [Verse 3]
Am                                   F
When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears

E7                       Am
From every day I've ever known

Am                               F
Anna's in the churchyard she got no life at all

E7                            Am
She only got these words on a stone
[Chorus]
    F                        C             G             Am
We cannot have all things to please us, no matter how we try

            F           C              G           Am  
Until we've all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why
[Outro] F C G Am F C G Am F G Am