| lyric | 1. There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore,
There I’ve whiled many happy hours away,
Asitting and asinging by the little cottage door,
Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.
Ref.: Oh, my poor Nelly Gray, they have takenn you away,
And I’ll never see my darling anymore.
I’m sitting by the river and I’m weeping all the day,
For you’ve gone from the old Kentucky shore.
2. When the moon had climbed the mountain and
the stars were shining too,
Then I’d take my darling Nelly Gray,
And we‘d float down the river in my little red canoe,
While my banjo sweetly [ would play.
3. My canoe is under water and
my banjo is unstrung,
I am tired of living anymore,
My eyes shall look downward
and my song shall be unsung,
While I stay on the old Kentucky shore. |