Shawn Phillips - Hey, Nelly Nelly lyrics

Friedman-Silverstein Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, lookee what I see He's a ridin' into town on a swayback mule Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool But he sure is a talkin' like he's been to school And it's 1853Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin' Hey Nelly Nelly, says it's gettin' late And he says them black folk should all be free To walk around the same as you and me And he's talkin' 'bout a thing called democracy And it's 1858Hey Nelly Nelly, hear the bands a playin' Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too And they're all puttin' on their coats of blue And I can't sit around here and talk to you ‘Cause it's 1861 Hey Nelly Nelly, now the fightin's over Hey Nelly Nelly, I come home alive But 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, people are alive I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side And they're walkin' in a column that's a century wide And it still is a long hard bloody damn ride And it's 1965 It's 1965