Hey Nelly Nelly

Judy Collins - Hey Nelly Nelly CAPO: 4th Fret [Intro]        [Verse 1] Hey Nelly Nelly come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly look to the what I see He’s ridin’ into town on a sway-back mule He’s got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool He sure is talkin’ like he’s been to school And it’s Eighteen Fifty-Three          [Verse 2] Hey Nelly Nelly listen what he’s sayin’ Hey Nelly Nelly he says it’s gettin’ late And he says them black folks should be free To walk around the same as you and me He’s talkin’ about a thing he calls democracy And it’s Eighteen Fifty-Eight          [Verse 3] Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a-playing Hey Nelly Nelly hand me down my gun For 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 And it’s Eighteen Sixty-One          [Verse 4] Hey Nelly Nelly come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly I’ve come home alive My coat of blue is stained with red And the man in the tall black hat is dead But we sure will remember all the things he said In Eighteen Sixty-Five          [Verse 5] Hey Nelly Nelly come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see I see white folks and coloured walkin’ side by side They’re walking in a column that’s a century wide                                   It was long and hard and bloody ride In Nineteen Sixty-Three