Darling Nellie Grey From Brad Leftwich in Round Peak Style Clawhammer Banjo Book. Key A 
There’s a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore Where I’ve whiled many happy hours away, A-sitting and a-singing by the little cottage door, Where lived my darling Nellie Grey. 
Chorus: Oh my darling Nellie Grey, they have taken you away And I’ll never get to see you any more. I’m a-sitting by the river and I’m weeping all the day For you’ve gone from the old Kentucky shore. 
When the moon had climbed the mountain and the stars were shining too Then I���d take my darling Nellie Grey And we���d float down the river in my little red canoe While my banjo sweetly I would play 
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. 
My canoe is under water and my banjo is unstrung And I’m tired of living anymore; My eyes shall look downward and my songs shall be unsung While I stay on the old Kentucky shore. 
My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way, Hark! there’s someone knocking at my door; I hear the angels calling and I see my Nellie Grey Farewell to the old Kentucky shore. 
Final chorus: Oh, my darling Nellie Gray, up in heaven there they say That they’ll never take you from me any more; I’m a-coming, I am coming as the angels clear the way Farewell to the old Kentucky shore. 
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