Hey Nellie Nellie - Gram Parsons

Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window

Hey Nellie, Nellie, look at what I see

He’s ridin' into town on a sway-back mule

He’s got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool

But he sure is talkin' like he’s been to school, and it’s 1853

Hey Nellie, Nellie, hear what he’s sayin'

Hey Nellie, Nellie, says it’s gettin' late

Says all them black folks should be free

To walk around the same as you and me

He’s talkin' about a thing they call democracy, and it’s 1858

Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window

Hey Nellie, Nellie, hand me down my gun

For the men are cheerin' and the boys are too

They’re all puttin' on their coats of blue

And I ain’t got no time to sit and talk to you, and it’s 1861

Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window

Hey Nellie, Nellie, I’ve come back alive

My coat of blue is stained with red

And the man in the tall black hat is dead

But we sure will remember all the things he said, and it’s 1865

Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window

Hey Nellie, Nellie, look at what I see

There are white folks and colored walkin' side by side

A-marchin' in a column that’s a century wide

It was a long and a hard and a bloody ride, and it’s 1963