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Peerless Quartet - Darling Nellie Gray (1925)

from The Underground Railroad - In A Low Green Valley by various artists

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This song was written by Benjamine Hanby, as part of the Underground Railroad.

The original profit of the song went to purchase a Nellie Gray away from slavery..

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(Hanby)

There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore
Where I whiled many happy hours away
A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door
Where lived my darling Nellie Gray

Oh my poor Nellie Gray, they have take you away
And I'll never see my darling anymore
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 neighbor say
"...the white man bound her with his chain!"
"They have take her to Georgia for to wear her life away
as she toils in the cotten and the cane!"

Oh my poor Nellie Gray, up in Heaven there they say
That they'll never take you from me anymore
I am coming, I am coming, as the angels clear the way
Fare you well from the old Kentucky shore.

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from The Underground Railroad - In A Low Green Valley, released May 12, 2017
Victor

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