Shawn Phillips – Hey Nellie Nellie chords

[Verse 1]
 C        Am C                 Am CHey Nelly Nelly, come to the window
 C         Am C   Am      G     AmHey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see
       Dm                   AmHe's riding into town on a sway back mule
      Dm                     AmGot a tall black hat and he looks like a fool
    Dm                            F    GHe sure is talkin' like he's been to school,
         Am G AmAnd it's 1853


[Verse 2]
 C        Am C                 Am CHey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin'
 C         Am C   Am      G            AmHey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late
     Dm                     AmSays all them black folks should all be free
    Dm                     AmTo walk around the same as you and me
    Dm                                 F  GHe's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy,
         Am G AmAnd it's 1858


[Verse 3]
 C        Am C                 Am CHey Nelly Nelly, hear the band a playing
 C         Am C   Am      G     AmHey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun
          Dm                       AmCause the men are cheerin and the boys are too
        Dm                    AmThey're all puttin' on their coats of blue
    Dm                           F    GI can't sit around here and talk to you,
           Am G AmCause it's 1861


[Verse 4]
 C        Am C                 Am CHey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window
 C         Am C   Am         G   AmHey Nelly Nelly, I've come back alive
    Dm               AmMy coat of blue is stained with red
        Dm                    AmAnd the man in the tall black hat is dead
    Dm                                F  GWe sure will remember all the things he said,
         Am G AmAnd it's 1865


[Verse 5]
 C        Am C                 Am CHey Nelly Nelly, come to the window
 C         Am C   Am      G      AmHey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see
       Dm                               AmI see white folks and coloured walkin' side by side
         Dm                              AmThey're marchin'  in a column that's a century wide
              Dm                      F    GIt's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride,
         Am G AmAnd it's 1963


by Shel Silverstein and Jim Friedman