Judy Collins – Hey Nelly Nelly (Guitar)

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[Intro] C F C F [Verse 1]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window

                  F           G      A
Hey Nelly, Nelly, look to the what I see

     D           Am        D         Am
He's ridin' into town on a sway-back mule

           D          Am         D            Am
He's got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool

   Dm      Em                F       G
He sure is talkin' like he's been to school

         Am       Em    D      Am  D  Am
And it's Eighteen Fifty-Three
[Verse 2]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, listen what he's sayin'

                     F         G       A
Hey Nelly, Nelly, he says it's gettin' late

       D         Am          D         Am
And he says them black folks should be free

   D     Am        D               Am
To walk around the same as you and me

     Dm       Em              F            G
He's talkin' about a thing he calls democracy

         Am       Em    D      Am  D  Am
And it's Eighteen Fifty-Eight
[Verse 3]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, hear the band a-playing

                  F       G       A
Hey Nelly, Nelly, hand me down my gun

        D       Am               D        Am
For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too

        D           Am       D        Am
They're all puttin' on their coats of blue

  Dm         Em             F       G
I can't sit around here and talk to you

         Am       Em    D    Am  D  Am
And it's Eighteen Sixty-One
[Verse 4]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window

                  F         G     A
Hey Nelly, Nelly, I've come home alive

   D       Am      D            Am
My coat of blue is stained with red

        D          Am         D      Am
And the man in the tall black hat is dead

       Dm         Em              F         G
But we sure will remember all the things he said

   Am       Em    D     Am  D  Am
In Eighteen Sixty-Five
[Verse 5]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window

                  F       G      A
Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see

      D               Am       D               Am
I see white folks and coloured walkin' side by side

        D            Am              D       Am
They're walking in a column that's a century wide

         Dm         Em         F      G
It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride

   Am       Em    D      Am  D  A
In Nineteen Sixty-Three