Darling Nellie Gray

Darling Nellie Gray - Henry Burr/The Peerless Quartet

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

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 anymore

I'm a coming coming coming

As the angels clear the way

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