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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.”

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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

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from Heavy Duty - Ballads of the Unfree, released February 1, 2018
song by Gilliam Welch

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Bill Lloyd Kendal, UK

Bill Lloyd is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from the Lake District in northern England. He plays 5 string banjo and Galician gaita bagpipes, uilleann pipes and whistles, He is a versatile singer in the ‘high lonesome’ mountain style, delicate ballads, and ‘come-all-ye’ folk styles. Bill is an experienced storyteller, compere, music promoter, record producer and festival organiser. ... more

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