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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see |
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He's ridin' into town on a sway-back mule |
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He's got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool |
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He sure is talkin' like he's been to school, and it's 1853 |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, listen what he's sayin' |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, he says it's gettin' late |
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And he says them black folks should be free |
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To walk around the same as you and me |
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He's talkin' about a thing he calls democracy, and it's 1858 |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, hear the band a-playing |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, hand me down my gun |
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For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too |
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They're all puttin' on their coats of blue |
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I can't sit around here and talk to you, and it's 1861 |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, I've come home alive |
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My coat of blue is stained with red |
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And the man in the tall black hat is dead |
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But we sure will remember all the things he said, in 1865 |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window |
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Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see |
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I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side |
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Thy're walking in a column that's a century wide |
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It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride, in 1963 |
