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Annabelle

from A Game of Swans by Nancy K Dillon

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03 Annabelle (Nancy K Dillon / John Hadley)
Woman left all alone in 1800s pioneer cabin goes slowly mad. Inspired by a visit to Don Evan’s homestead outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

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Annabelle
© 2018 Nancy K. Dillon (BMI) /John Hadley (BMI)

Annabelle brings the water from the well
The cool clear water from the well
She hangs the clothes up on the line
And breaks a white rose off the vine
What’s running through your mind, Annabelle ?

Annabelle puts the rose in her hair
The snow white rose in her long brown hair
She sets the bucket by the door
And walks her shadow across the floor
It’s your shadow nothing more, Annabelle

CHORUS

It’s not the black crows rising in the blue sky
Thousands of them blocking out the sun
It’s not blood that has dried
From a lover you denied
Or the unblinking eye of a gun
It’s not Father or Mother and it cannot be
The bottomless entrance to hell
It’s only your shadow that you see
No less and no more Annabelle

The cold wind and the wolf howl in the woods
The moon is floating face-down in the well
Frozen clothes on the line
Frozen roses on the vine
What’s running through your mind Annabelle

She walks out in the midnight white robe flowing
And stares up to the sky from far below
She can hear the grey wolf calling
She’ll close her eyes and slowly falling
Annabelle makes her angel in the snow

In the glistening cathedral where only saints may go
Annabelle makes her angel in the snow

credits

from A Game of Swans, released January 20, 2018
Personnel:
NKD – acoustic guitar/vocals/stompboard
Chris Parks – acoustic guitars rhythm & lead

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Nancy K Dillon Seattle, Washington

On her albums, Nancy K. Dillon maps the road West; the dusty highways that conjure up images like Kerouac's road trips, traveling dustbowl carnivals, and free-spirited 70s hipsters. Inspired by Oklahoma & Texas troubadours Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Kevin Welch, Dillon's songs are short stories about characters that populate true American life. ... more

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