Hey, Nelly, Nelly

HEY, NELLY, NELLY
By: Shel Silverstein & Jim Friedman
Judy Collins
Key: F

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Hey Nel-ly Nel-ly, come to the win-dow
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Hey Nel-ly Nel-ly look at what I see
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He's rid-ing in-to town on a sway back mule
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Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool
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He sure is talk-in' like he's been to school
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And it's   1853

Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin'
Hey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late
And he says them black folks should all be free
To walk around the same as you and me
He's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy
And it's 1858

Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a playing
Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun
"Cause the men are cheerin' and the boys are too
They're all puttin' on their coats of blue
I can't sit around here and talk to you
"Cause it's 1861

Hey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window
Hey Nelly Nelly, I've come back alive
My coat of blue is stained with red
And the man in the tall black hat is dead
We sure will remember all the things he said
In 1865

Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window
Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see
I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side
They're walkin' in a column that's a century wide
It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride
In 1963