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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