IntroCFCFVerse 1C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
FGA
Hey Nelly, Nelly, look to the what I see
DAmDAm
He's ridin' into town on a sway-back mule
DAmDAm
He's got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool
DmEmFG
He sure is talkin' like he's been to school
AmEmDAmDAm
And it's Eighteen Fifty-Three
Verse 2C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, listen what he's sayin'
FGA
Hey Nelly, Nelly, he says it's gettin' late
DAmDAm
And he says them black folks should be free
DAmDAm
To walk around the same as you and me
DmEmFG
He's talkin' about a thing he calls democracy
AmEmDAmDAm
And it's Eighteen Fifty-Eight
Verse 3C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, hear the band a-playing
FGA
Hey Nelly, Nelly, hand me down my gun
DAmDAm
For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too
DAmDAm
They're all puttin' on their coats of blue
DmEmFG
I can't sit around here and talk to you
AmEmDAmDAm
And it's Eighteen Sixty-One
Verse 4C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
FGA
Hey Nelly, Nelly, I've come home alive
DAmDAm
My coat of blue is stained with red
DAmDAm
And the man in the tall black hat is dead
DmEmFG
But we sure will remember all the things he said
AmEmDAmDAm
In Eighteen Sixty-Five
Verse 5]
C
Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window
FGA
Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see
DAmDAm
I see white folks and coloured walkin' side by side
DAmDAm
They're walking in a column that's a century wide
DmEmFG
It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride
AmEmDAmDA
In Nineteen Sixty-Three
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