My Darling Nellie Gray
Автор: Kirk Hunter
Загружено: 2025-12-12
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Song composed by Benjamin Hanby in 1856. The cheery melody belies the pain expressed in the lyrics.
Here are the lyrics I learned from my Dad who was born and raised in the community of Ross, Tx. He learned from Black field workers.
V1There'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 cottage door,
Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.
Chorus
Oh! my darling Nelly Gray, they have taken you away,
And I'll never see my darling any more;
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day.
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
V2
When the moon had climbed the mountain and the stars were shining too.
Then I'd take my darling Nelly Gray,
And we'd float down the river in my little red canoe,
While my banjo sweetly I would play.
Chorus
V3
One night I went to see her, but "She's gone!" the neighbors say.
The white man bound her with his chain;
They have taken her to Georgia for to work her life away,
Farewell to my Darling Nellie Gray.
Final Chorus
Oh, my darling Nelly Gray, up in heaven there they say,
That they'll never take you from me any more.
I'm a-coming-coming-coming, as the angels clear the way,
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore!
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