My Darling Nellie Gray

Performer: J.W. Myers

Issue Number: Columbia 4615 [1]

Release year: 1904-1909

Source: UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

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There's a low, green valley, on the old Kentucky shore.

Where I've 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'm 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 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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[1] El cilindro original (1897-1900) estaba interpretado por Steve Porter