Hey Nellie Nellie chords by Shawn Phillips

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

 C majorC    A minorAm C majorC         A minorAm C majorC
Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window

 C majorC     A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm
Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see

    DmDm          A minorAm
He's riding into town on a sway back mule

   DmDm           A minorAm
Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool

  DmDm              FF  G+G
He sure is talkin' like he's been to school,

     A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And it's 1853

Verse 2:

 C majorC    A minorAm C majorC         A minorAm C majorC
Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin'

 C majorC     A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm   G+G      A minorAm
Hey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late

   DmDm           A minorAm
Says all them black folks should all be free

  DmDm           A minorAm
To walk around the same as you and me

  DmDm                 FF G+G
He's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy,

     A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And it's 1858


Verse 3:

 C majorC    A minorAm C majorC         A minorAm C majorC
Hey Nelly Nelly, hear the band a playing

 C majorC     A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm
Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun

     DmDm            A minorAm
Cause the men are cheerin and the boys are too

    DmDm          A minorAm
They're all puttin' on their coats of blue

  DmDm              FF  G+G
I can't sit around here and talk to you,

      A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Cause it's 1861

Verse 4:

 C majorC    A minorAm C majorC         A minorAm C majorC
Hey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window

 C majorC     A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm     G+G  A minorAm
Hey Nelly Nelly, I've come back alive

  DmDm        A minorAm
My coat of blue is stained with red

    DmDm          A minorAm
And the man in the tall black hat is dead

  DmDm                FF G+G
We sure will remember all the things he said,

     A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And it's 1865


Verse 5:

 C majorC    A minorAm C majorC         A minorAm C majorC
Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window

 C majorC     A minorAm C majorC  A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm
Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see

    DmDm                A minorAm
I see white folks and coloured walkin' side by side

     DmDm               A minorAm
They're marchin' in a column that's a century wide

       DmDm           FF  G+G
It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride,

     A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And it's 1963


by Shel Silverstein and Jim Friedman