Annabelle (Alternate Version)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I lease twenty acres and one Jenny mule From the Alabama trust Half of the cotton, a third of the corn You get a handful of dust [Chorus] And 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 [Verse 2] I had a daughter, called her Annabelle She's the apple of my eye Tried to give her something like I never had I didn't want to ever hear her cry [Chorus] And 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 [Verse 3] When I'm dead and buried, I'll take a hard life of tears For every day I've ever known Anna's in the churchyard, she's got no life at all She's only got these words on a stone [Chorus] And 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 [Outro] Until we've all gone to Jesus We only wonder why