Hey, Nelly Nelly-Judy Collins

[ti:Hey, Nelly Nelly] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Live '59-'61] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hey, Nelly Nelly - Judy Collins [00:09.82]Hey nelly nelly come to the window [00:13.10] [00:14.17]Hey nelly nelly look at what I see [00:17.69] [00:18.41]He's riding into town on a sway back mule [00:21.77] [00:22.42]Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool [00:25.73] [00:27.20]He sure is talking like he's been to school [00:32.34] [00:33.17]And it's 1853 [00:37.00] [00:43.74]Hey nelly nelly listen what he's saying [00:47.12] [00:47.83]Hey nelly nelly he says it's getting late [00:50.52] [00:51.86]And he says them black folks should all be free [00:56.62]To walk around the same as you and me [00:59.94]He's talking bout a thing he calls democracy [01:06.21] [01:07.24]And it's 1858 [01:10.94] [01:17.93]Hey nelly nelly hear the band a playing [01:20.99] [01:21.74]Hey nelly nelly hand me down my gun [01:25.18] [01:26.00]Cause the men are cheering and the boys are too [01:30.73]They're all putting on their coats of blue [01:34.20]I can't sit around here and talk to you [01:40.00] [01:41.07]Cause it's 1861 [01:45.19] [01:51.81]Hey nelly nelly come to the window [01:55.20] [01:55.86]Hey nelly nelly I've come back alive [01:59.36] [01:59.92]My coat of blue is stained with red [02:03.43] [02:04.09]And the man in the tall black hat is dead [02:08.55] [02:09.92]We sure will remember all the things he said [02:16.12] [02:17.15]In 1865 [02:21.03] [02:28.05]Hey nelly nelly come to the window [02:31.40] [02:32.27]Hey nelly nelly look at what I see [02:35.85] [02:36.54]I see white folks and colored walking side by side [02:40.29] [02:41.59]They're walking in a column that's a century wide [02:45.92] [02:46.84]It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride [02:53.48] [02:54.10]In 1964