Darling Nellie Gray

Performer: The Metropolitan Quartette

Issue Number: Edison 10053

Release year: 1909

Source: UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

Subjects: Slavery  

Letra adaptada

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.

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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👉🏽 Decca 1245. Louis Armstrong & Mills Brothers (1937) [#19, 12.06.37] 🔊