Chords for Gillian Welch, Annabelle, A Study Of American Sharecroppers

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We lease 20 acres and [F] _ one jenny mule _ _ [E] _
_ _ from the _ [Am] Alabama Trust _ _ _ _ _ _
Half of the cotton, _ _ [F]
a third of the corn, _ _ [E] _
_ we get a handful [Am] of dust
_ _ _ _ We _ [C] cannot have all things _ please us
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_ matter _ _ [Am] how we _ try, _ _ until [F] we've _ _ _ [C] all gone to _ Jesus
_ We [G] can _ only _ _ _ [Am] wonder why
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I had a daughter, _ _ [F] called her Annabelle
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She's the apple [A] of my eye
_ _ _ _ _ _ Tried to give her [Am] something [F] like I never had
I [E] _ didn't want her ever [Am] hear her cry
_ _ _ _ [F] We _ cannot have [C] all things please _ us
_ _ [G] No matter _ _ [C] _ how [Am] we try, _ _ _ until [F] we've _ all _ _ [C] gone to _ Jesus
_ We [G] can _ only _ _ _ [Am] wonder why _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ When I'm dead and buried I'll [F] take her heart like a piece
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From every day I've [Am] ever known
_ _ _ _ _ _ But Anna's in the churchyard, she's got no life [F] at all
_ _ _ [E] She's only got these words on [A] the stool
_ _ _ [F] We _ cannot have all [C] things please us
_ _ No [G] matter _ _ _ _ [C] how [Am] we _ try, _ until [F] we've _ all [Bb] _ _ _ [C] gone to _ Jesus
_ _ _ [G] We can only _ _ _ [Am] wonder why _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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