Darling Nellie Gray
Composer(s): Benjamin Russell Hanby
Performer(s): Eddy Arnold
and various other artists



There's a low green valley
On the old Kentucky shore 
There I've whiled many happy hours away
A sittin' and a singin'
By the little cottage door
Where lived my darling Nellie Gray

Oh! My poor Nellie Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I'm a sittin' by the river
And I'm weepin' all the day
For you've gone from the
Old Kentucky shore

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

Oh! My poor Nellie Gray
They have taken you away
And I'll never see my darling any more
I'm a sittin' by the river
And I'm weepin' all the day
For you've gone from the
Old Kentucky shore