Bill Lloyd - Annabelle

Текст с Bandcamp’a: “Gillian Welch captures the pain and resignation of subsistence farmers, who make up 40% of the world’s population. Bound to the land with little hope of leaving it, working long hours just to stay alive, these Alabama smallholders turn to religion, and resign themselves to poverty and grief – “till we’ve all gone to Jesus.” lyrics 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 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, 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 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 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 from Heavy Duty - Ballads of the Unfree, released February 1, 2018 song by Gilliam Welch“