gillian welch annabelle lyrics

Lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule From the Alabama Trust Half of the cotton, third of the corn Get a handful of dust We cannot have all things to please us No matter how we try 'Til we've all gone to Jesus We can only wonder why I had a daughter

Nowhere man And the whiskey girl Nowhere man And the whiskey girl They loaded up for A weekend in the underworld I'd take you down Honey if I could I'd take you down Honey if I could We'd find a place In the sunshine We'd be feeling good Don't you kn

I made a lover's prayer I made a lover's prayer Then watched the sky Then wanted to cry So only you and I And how I try I made a lover's prayer I made a lover's prayer I made a lover's prayer Help me rise above What I'm thinking of Just a little more

A long time ago left my home For job in the fruit trees But I miss those hills with the windy pines Their song seemed to suit me So I sent my wages to my home Said, we'd soon be 'gether For the next good crop, pay my way And I'd come home forever One

Buddy I went down to Scarlet Town Never been there before You slept on a feather bed I slept on the floor I don't mind a little town Or drinking my coffee cold But the things I seen in Scarlet Town Did mortify my soul Look at that deep well Look at t

There's gotta be a song let to sing Cause everybody can't of thought of everything One little song that ain't been sung One little rag that ain't been wrung out completely yet Gotta a little left One little drop of fallin rain One little chance to tr

Look at Miss Ohio-Gillian Welch By Doo Oh me,oh my oh,look at Miss Ohio She's running around with her rag-top down She says I wanna do right but not right now Gonna drive to Atlanta and live out this fantasy Running around with the rag-top down Yeah

Well now boys, I'm a rollin' stone That's what I was when I first left home I took every secret that I'd ever known And headed for the wall Like a wrecking ball Started down a little road of sin Playin' bass under a pseudonym The days were rough, and

[Chorus] I had a real good mother and father And they surely stood the test And now they're in bright glory And are sleeping on the saviors breast They set a good example for me And they taught me how to pray Now I truly converted And walkin' on the

Saw a girl on the street from my home Like a fire on the hillside she shown And I knew right then that my best days were gone And I?d been, been in the lowlands too long Oh I've been in the lowlands too long Oh, I know, I know that I should go And I'

Oh, I dream a highway back to you, Love A winding ribbon with a band of gold A silver vision, come and rest my soul I dream a highway back to you Johnny's kickin' out the footlights The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band Lord, let me die with a ha

The fairest bloom the mountain know Is not an iris or a wild rose But the little flower of which I'll tell Known as the brave agony bell Just a simple flower so small and plain With a pearly hue and a little known name But the yellow birds sing when

When I cross over I will shout and sing I will know my savior By the mark where the nails have been By the mark where the nails have been By the sign upon his precious skin I will know my savior when I come to him By the mark where the nails have bee

Standing on the corner with a nickel or a dime There use to be a rail car to take you down the line Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed And when I got to Nashville, it was too much soldiers joy Wasted on the wayside, wasted on the way If I

I want to sing that rock and roll. I want to 'lectrify my soul, 'Cause everybody been making a shout So big and loud, been drowning me out. I want to sing that rock and roll. I want to reach that glory land. I want to shake my savior's hand, And I wa

Nobody knows what waits ahead Beyond the earth and sky Lie-d Lie-d Lie I'm not afraid to die And there the work of my own hand Be broken by and by Lie-d Lie-d Lie I'm not afraid to die Sometimes it finds me fast asleep And wakes me where I lie Lie-d

I want to go all over the world And start living free I know that there's somebody who Is waiting for me I'll build a boat, steady and true As soon as it's done I'm going to sail along in the dreams Of my dear someone One little star, smiling tonight

Becky Johnson bought the farm Put a needle in her arm That's the way that it goes That's the way And her brother laid her down In the cold Kentucky ground That's the way that it goes That's the way That's the way that it goes Everybody's buying littl

Oh, my mother was just a girl, seventeen Oh, my mother was just a girl, seventeen And my dad was passin' through doing things a man will do And my mother was just a girl, seventeen It's a wonder that I'm in this world at all It's a wonder that I'm in

Round, round, I wanna go round wanna see the rock of ages when my body gives out gonna read the final pages Oh, my mother who's gone she told me I should meet her Someday streets of gold Gonna guide me on to greet her Once my father sat down and told