Traditional - Nelly Was A Lady guitar chord

Nelly Was a Lady

S. Foster

arrangement by Alvin Youngblood Heart

CAPO IV (key of F)

INTRO: D G D

D G D A

Down on the Mississippi floating

D A D

Long time I travel on the way

D G D A

All night the cottonwood a-toting

D A D

Sing for my true love all the day

CHORUS:

D G

Nelly was a lady

Em A

Last night she died

D G

Toll the bell for lovely Nell

D A D

By dark Virginie bride

INTRO

Now I'm unhappy and I'm weaping

Can't tote the cottonwood no more

Last night while Nelly was a-sleeping

Death came a-knockin' at the door

CHORUS

INTRO

When I saw my Nelly in the morning

Smile 'til she opened up her eyes

Seemed like the light of day a-dawning

Just 'fore the sun begin to rise

Close by the margin of the water

Where the lone weeping willow grows

There lived Virginie's lovely daughter

There she in death may find repose

CHORUS

INTRO

Down int he meadow 'mong the clover

Walk with my Nelly by my side

Now all them happy days are over

Farewell my dark Virginie bride

CHORUS