Origins: Annabelle (Gillian Welch)

Subject: Origins: origin Bluegrass/Country Annabelle
From: olddude
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 11:51 PM

anyone know the origin of the bluegrass song Annabelle
beautiful tune for sure

Subject: RE: Origins: origin Bluegrass/Country Annabelle
From: olddude
Date: 26 Sep 08 - 11:55 PM

Gillian Welch version is wonderful
Annabelle

Subject: RE: Origins: origin Bluegrass/Country Annabelle
From: olddude
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 01:38 AM

the web says this is written by Gillian Welch but I have heard a similar version many years ago, I believe it is an old song that was upgraded by Welch. Anyone have any ideas

Subject: RE: Origins: origin Bluegrass/Country Annabelle
From: open mike
Date: 27 Sep 08 - 02:47 AM

i believe it is a Gillian Welch original
http://www.gillianwelch.com/

Subject: Lyr Add: ANNABELLE (Gillian Welch)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 02:05 PM

Lyrics and chords copied from http://www.guitaretab.com/w/welch-gillian/20642.html

ANNABELLE
(Gillian Welch)

CAPO 5

    Em                        C                B7               Em
  1. We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule from the Alabama trust
  Em                           C                 B7                  Em
  For half of the cotton and a third of the corn we get a handful of dust
  
              C                        G             D             Em
  CHORUS: We cannot have all things to please us, no matter how we try
       C                  G              D           Em  C  D  Em
  Until we've all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why.

2. 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. CHORUS

3. 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 only got these words on a stone. CHORUS

[Sung by Gillian Welch on "Revival," 1996.]

Subject: ADD: Annabelle (Gillian Welch)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 12:54 AM

ANNABELLE
(Gillian Welch)

1. 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


CHORUS: 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.

2. 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. CHORUS

3. 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 only got these words on a stone. CHORUS

[Sung by Gillian Welch on "Revival," 1996.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOk1UDGSIcc