Darling Nellie across the sea
(video)
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1. Oh, the night was dark and stormy, when this me….ssage came to me,
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it was from my darling Nellie,
who is far across the sea.
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Oh dear Jack, I know I'm
dying, I've no friends nor parents nigh,
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but remember, dearest Jackie,
there's a home for us on high.
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2. Oh dear mother, I must leave you, I must go across the sea,
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I must find my darling Nellie,
who so dea…...rly cared for me.
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I was wandering through the
grave yard, when I found where Nellie lay,
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it was there my heart was
broken, it was there I knelt and
prayed.
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3. Now I'm left alone in sadness on the fields of flowery
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and the girl I love is
sleeping in the cold and silent
grave.
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Lay me where my Nellie's
sleeping, close beside her let me lie,
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where the blooming flowers are
creeping,
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there, oh lay me, when I die.
Recorded 11/25/30
(The Carter Family)