Darling Nelly Gray - Anonymous 4/Bruce Molsky
There's a low green valley
On the old Kentucky shore
There I whiled many happy hours away
A sitting and a singing
By the little cottage door
Where lived my darling Nelly Gray
Oh my poor Nelly Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I am sitting by the river
And I'm weeping all the day
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore
When the moon had climbed the mountain
And the stars were shining too
Then I'd take my darling Nelly Gray
And we'd float down the river
In my little red canoe
While my banjo sweetly I would play
Oh my poor Nelly Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I am sitting by the river
And I'm weeping all the day
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore
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
Oh my poor Nelly Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I am sitting by the river
And I'm weeping all the day
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore
My canoe is underwater
And my banjo is unstrung
I'm tired of living any more
My eyes shall look downward
And my songs shall be unsung
While I stay on the old Kentucky shore
Oh my poor Nelly Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I am sitting by the river
And I'm weeping all the day
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore
My eyes are getting blinded
And I cannot see my way
Hark there's somebody
Knocking at the door
Oh I hear the angels calling
And I see my Nelly Gray
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore
Oh my darling Nelly Gray
Up in heaven there they say
That they'll never take you
From me anymore
I'm a-coming coming coming
As the angels clear the way
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore
