====== #144 - Darling Nelly Gray ======
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  *Composer:
    *Benjamine Russell Hanby (1833-1867), 1863
  *Title variations:
    *Nelly Gray
    *Nellie Gray
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
There's a low green valley\\
On the old Kentucky shore,\\
There I've whiled many happy hours away.\\
A sitting and a singing\\
By the little cottage door,\\
where lived my darling Nelly Gray.\\
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//chorus: //\\
Oh! My poor Nelly Gray,\\
They have taken you away,\\
And I'll never see my darling any more.\\
I'm a sitting by the river\\
And I'm weeping all the day,\\
For you've gone from the\\
Old Kentucky shore.\\
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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 wear her life away,\\
As she toils in the cotton and the cane.\\
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My canoe is under water\\
And my banjo is unstrung\\
I'm tired of living anymore;\\
My eyes shall look downward\\
And my songs shall be unsung\\
While I stay on the old Kentucky shore.\\
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My eyes are getting blinded\\
And I cannot see my way,\\
Hark! there's someone knocking at my door;\\
Oh! I hear the angels calling\\
And I see my Nelly Gray\\
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.\\
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//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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    *Benjamine Russell Hanby (1833-1867), 1863