 | Levi K. Coonley - Hymns, English - 1864 - 236 pages
...happy hours away, A sitting and a singing by the little cottage Where lived my darling Nelly Gray. Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more ; I'm sitting by the river, and I'm weeping all the day, For you've gone from the old Kentucky... | |
 | Minn (pseud.) - 1872 - 116 pages
...up version of her own of " Nellie Gray," which she had picked up somewhere — "Oh ! my poor Nellie Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more, . . . I am sitting on the river in my little red canoe, While my banjo so sadly do I play."... | |
 | Ohio - 1905 - 534 pages
...sitting and a singing by the little cottage door, Where lived my darling Nelly Gray. •> CHORUS.' Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away. And I'll never see my darling any more ; I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day, For you've gone from the old Kentucky... | |
 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...Nelly Gray. Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken yon away, And I'll never see my darling any more ; 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 cliinb'd the mountain, and the stars were shining too, Then I'd take my darling Nelly... | |
 | Shafto Justin Adair Fitz-Gerald - Songs - 1901 - 272 pages
...Darling Nelly Gray" and " O Susanna," both depicting the suffering of slave lovers. " Oh ! my poor Nellie Gray, They have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more," was heard on every side and voiced by all sorts of singers. " O Susanna" was more in the... | |
 | John Stevenson - Ireland - 1903 - 388 pages
...he sang at the top of his voice snatches of old songs, one of the best remembered being " O Nellie Gray They have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more." An inhabitant of Brablagh saw the evil one in the usual form, and with eyes which he said... | |
 | Henry Marvin Wharton - American poetry - 1904 - 520 pages
...and singing in my little cabin door, Where lived my darling Nellie Gray. CHORUS : Oh, my poor Nellie Gray, They have taken you away And I'll never see my darling any more, I'm sitting by the river, And I'm watching all the day, For you've gone from my old Kentucky... | |
 | Ohio - 1905 - 512 pages
...A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door, Where lived my darling Nelly Gray. CHORUS. Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more ; I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day, For you've gone from the old Kentucky... | |
 | Ohio - 1905 - 540 pages
...away, A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door, Where lived my .darling Nelly Gray. Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more; I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day, For you've gone from the old Kentucky... | |
 | Henry Parker Eastman - African Americans - 1905 - 458 pages
...extract from the well known and popular song, "Nellie Gray," will show this better: "Oh, my poor Nellie Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling again ; They have taken her to Georgia to wear her life away, As she toils in the cotton and the cane."... | |
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Oh ! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more... 
