Key: D
Introduction: D5 D
D5 D
The lone woman stands in the turning December
D5
She's got ice on her lashes
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White at her winter coat
D5
The trees stand like soldiers around her
D
Dutiful wooden curse
D5
And the heart she feared frozen
D
Still beats and still marches on
G D/F#Em
Oh, Annie
D
I will think of you each time I see the sun
Em D/F#
Didn't want a day without you
G D5 D
But somehow I've lived through another one
D5
A gentlemen waits on a platform
D
In a haze of gray and grief
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Now he's sold up his assets
D
Starting over at 70
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The steam blasts like trumpets around him
D
Salutes on the colonnade
D
"We're all waiting for our train to come"
G D/F#Em
Oh, Annie
D
I will think of you each time I see the sun
Em D/F#
Didn't want a year without you
G D
But somehow I've lived through another one
G
Did you find it hard to breathe at first?
Em
Were you wounded and in disbelief
At how much it hurt?
G
Now the ache's still burning
F
But the world's still turning
A
Isn't it?
G D/F#Em
Oh, Annie
D
I still think of you each time I see the sun
Em D/F#
Didn't want a life without you
G D5 D
But here I am living one