There's a low green valley

"Nelly Gray"

There's a low green valley
On the old Kentucky shore,
There I've whiled many happy hours away,
A-sitting and a-singing
By the little cottage door
Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.

Oh! my darling Nelly Gray,
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more.
Now I'm sitting by the river
And I'm weeping all the day,
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.

When the moon had climb'd the mountain
And the stars were shining too,
Then I'd take my darling Nelly Gray,
And we'd float down the river
In my little red canoe,
While my banjo sweetly I would play.

Oh! my poor Nelly Gray,
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more,
Now I'm 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 neighbors say,
The white man bound her with his chain!
They have taken her to Georgia
For to wear her life away,
As she toils in the cotton and the cane.

Oh! my darling Nelly Gray,
Up in heaven there they say,
That they'll never take you from me any more,
I'm a-coming-coming-coming,
As the angels clear the way,
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.

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