Hey Nellie Nellie
(专辑: Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings Of Gram Parsons - 2000)
Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the
window Hey Nellie, Nellie, look at what I
see He's riding into town on a
sway-back mule He's got a
tall black hat and he looks like a
fool But he sure is talking like he's been to school, and it's 1853 Hey Nellie, Nellie, hear what he's saying Hey Nellie, Nellie, says it's getting late Says all them black folks should be free To walk around the
same as you and me He's talking about a
thing they call democracy, and it's 1858 Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the
window Hey Nellie, Nellie, hand me down my gun For the
men are cheering and the
boys are too They're all putting on their coats of blue And I
ain't got no time to sit and talk to you, and it's 1861 Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the
window Hey Nellie, Nellie, I've come back alive 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, and it's 1865 Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the
window Hey Nellie, Nellie, look at what I
see There are white folks and colored walking side by side A-marching in a
column that's a
century wide It was a
long and a
hard and a
bloody ride, and it's 1963