Judy Collins - Hey Nelly Nelly
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, look to the what I see
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He's ridin' into town on a sway-back mule
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He's got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool
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He sure is talkin' like he's been to school
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And it's Eighteen Fifty-Three
[Verse 2]
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, listen what he's sayin'
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, he says it's gettin' late
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And he says them black folks should be free
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To walk around the same as you and me
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He's talkin' about a thing he calls democracy
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And it's Eighteen Fifty-Eight
[Verse 3]
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, hear the band a-playing
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, hand me down my gun
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For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too
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They're all puttin' on their coats of blue
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I can't sit around here and talk to you
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And it's Eighteen Sixty-One
[Verse 4]
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, I've come home alive
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My coat of blue is stained with red
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And the man in the tall black hat is dead
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But we sure will remember all the things he said
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In Eighteen Sixty-Five
[Verse 5]
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see
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I see white folks and coloured walkin' side by side
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They're walking in a column that's a century wide
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It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride
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In Nineteen Sixty-Three