Hey, Nelly Nelly

歌詞

Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at 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 1853 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 1858 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 1861 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 1865 Hey Nelly, Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly, Nelly, look at what I see I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side Thy're walking in a column that's a century wide It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride, in 1963