Misc Traditional – Darling Nelly Gray (Guitar)
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Darling Nelly Gray is an old anti-slavery song from 1857
Words and Music by Benjamin Hanby
[Verse 1]
D G There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore, D A7 There I've whiled many happy hours away D G A-sitting and a-singing by the little cottage door, D A7 D Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.
[Chorus]
C D Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, A7 And I'll never see my darling any more, D G I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, D A7 D For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
[Verse 2]
D G When the moon had climbed the mountain, and the stars were shining too, D A7 Then I'd take my darling Nelly Gray, D G And we'd float down the river in my little red canoe, D A7 D While my banjo sweetly I would play.
[Chorus]
C D Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, A7 And I'll never see my darling any more, D G I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, D A7 D For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
[Verse 3]
D G One night I went to see her, but "She's gone!" the neighbors say, D A7 The white man bound her with his chain, D G They have taken her to Georgia for to wear her life away, D A7 D As she toils in the cotton and the cane.
[Chorus]
C D Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, A7 And I'll never see my darling any more, D G I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, D A7 D For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
[Verse 4]
D G My canoe is under water, and my banjo is unstrung, D A7 I'm tired of living any more, D G My eyes shall look downward and my song shall be unsung, D A7 D While I stay on the old Kentucky shore.
[Chorus]
C D Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, A7 And I'll never see my darling any more, D G I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, D A7 D For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
(softly)
[Verse 5]
D G My eyes are getting blinded, and I cannot see the way, D A7 Hark! there's somebody knocking at the door, D G Oh! I hear the angels calling and I see my Nelly Gray, D A7 D Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.
[Chorus]
C D Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, A7 And I'll never see my darling any more, D G I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, D A7 D G For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore. D A7 D A7 D For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore