Jim Reeves

Born - August 20, 1923

           Galloway, Texas, U.S.

Died - July 31, 1964 (aged 40)

Williamson County, Tennessee, U.S. 

             Annabel Lee 

It was many and many a year ago

In a kingdom by the sea

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me

I was a child and she was a child

In this kingdom by the sea

But we loved with a love that was more than love

I and my Annabel Lee

With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me

And this was the reason that long ago

In this kingdom by the sea

A wind blew out of a cloud chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee

So that her high-born kinsmen came

And bore her away from me

To shut her up in a sepulcher

In this kingdom by the sea

The angels not half so happy in heaven

Went envying her and me

Yes, that was the reason as all men know

In this kingdom by the sea

That the wind came out of the cloud by night

Chilling and killing my beautiful Annabel Lee

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we

Of many who were wiser than we

 And neither the angels in heaven above

 Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul

From the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee

For the moon never beams without bringing me

Dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

And so all the night-tide

I lie down by the side of my darling

My darling, my life and my bride

In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb

By the sounding sea

(Annabel Lee)