Misc Traditional – Nelly Bly (Guitar)

C                                       G7
Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! Bring the broom along,

C                       F                   G7            C
We'll sweep the kitchen clean, my dear, and have a little song.

C                                              G7
Poke the wood, my lady love, and make the fire burn,

    C                F           G7                   C
And while I take the banjo down, just give the mush a turn.

C               F
Heigh, Nelly!   Ho, Nelly!

C                G7
Listen, love, to me,

     C                F
I'll sing for you and play for you

  G7         C
A dulcet melody.

C                                   G7
Nelly Bly has a voice like a turtle dove,

C                F            G7             C
I hear it in the meadow and I hear it in the grove.

C                                      G7
Nelly Bly has a heart warm as a cup of tea,

    C               F               G7          C
And bigger than the sweet potatoes down in Tennessee.

C               F
Heigh, Nelly!   Ho, Nelly!

C                G7
Listen, love, to me,

     C                F
I'll sing for you and play for you

  G7         C
A dulcet melody.

C                                        G7
Nelly Bly shuts her eye when she goes to sleep.

C               F            G7                C
When she wakens up again her eyeballs start to peep.

C                                                            G7
The way she walks, she lifts her foot, and then she bumps it down,

C                           F           G7                  C
And when it lights, there's music there in that part of the town.

C               F
Heigh, Nelly!   Ho, Nelly!

C                G7
Listen, love, to me,

     C                F
I'll sing for you and play for you

  G7         C
A dulcet melody.

C                                  G7
Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! Never, never sigh;

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Never bring the tear drop to the corner of your eye.

C                                                       G7
For the pie is made of pumpkins and the mush is made of corn,

            C                 F               G7           C
And there's corn and pumpkins plenty, love, a-lyin' in the barn.

C               F
Heigh, Nelly!   Ho, Nelly!

C                G7
Listen, love, to me,

     C                F
I'll sing for you and play for you

  G7         C
A dulcet melody.

C               F
Heigh, Nelly!   Ho, Nelly!

C                G7
Listen, love, to me,

     C                F
I'll sing for you and play for you

  G7         C
A dulcet melody.