Gillian Welch - Annabelle Chords
[Am]We lease twenty acres and [F]one Ginny mule [E7]From the Alabama [Am]trust [Am]For a half of the cotton and a [F]third of the corn [E7]We get a handful of [Am]dust
We [F]cannot have all things to [C]please us No [G]matter how we [Am]try Until [F]we’ve all gone to [C]Jesus We can [G]only wonder [Am]why [F] [G] [Am]
I [Am]had a daughter [F]called Annabelle [E7]She’s the apple of my [Am]eye [Am]Tried to give her something [F]like I never had [E7]Didn’t want to ever hear her [Am]cry
We [F]cannot have all things to [C]please us No [G]matter how we [Am]try Until [F]we’ve all gone to [C]Jesus We can [G]only wonder [Am]why [F] [G] [Am]
[Am]When I’m dead and buried I’ll take a [F]hard life of tears [E7]From every day I’ve ever [Am]known [Am]Anna’s in the churchyard she got [F]no life at all [E7]She only got these words on a [Am]stone
We [F]cannot have all things to [C]please us No [G]matter how we [Am]try Until [F]we’ve all gone to [C]Jesus We can [G]only wonder [Am]why [F] [G] [Am]
We [F]cannot have all things to [C]please us No [G]matter how we [Am]try Until [F]we’ve all gone to [C]Jesus We can [G]only wonder [Am]why [F] [G] [Am]