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Darling Nellie Grey

 

by Benjamin Hanby 1856

 

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There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore

Where I've whiled many happy hours away

A sitting and a singing by the little cabin door

Where lived my darling Nellie Grey

 

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Oh my darling Nellie Grey why have they taken you way

And I'll never get to see you anymore

I'm sitting by the river and so lonely all the day

For you've gone from the old KEntucky shore

 

When the moon had climbed the mountain and the stars were shining too

Then I'd take my darling Nellie Grey

And we'd float down the river in my little red canoe

And my banjo sweetly I would play

 

One night I went to her but she's gone the neighbours say

The white man bound her with his chain

They have taken her to Georgia to wear her life away

As she toils in the cotton and the cane

 

My canoe is under water and my banjo is unstrung

And I'm tired of living anymore

My eyes shall look downward and my song shall be unsung

While I sat on the old Kentucy shore

 

My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way

Hark there's someone knocking at the door

I hear the angels calling and I see my Nellie Grey

Farewell to the old Kentucky shore

 

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Oh my darling Nellie Greu up in heaven  there they say

That they'll never take you from me anymore

I am coming I am coing as the angel's clear the way

Farewell to the old Kentucky shore

    

 

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