Farewell Nellie
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1. Farewell, Nellie, farewell, darling, soon with strangers I must roam,
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don't
forget the one that loves you far away from friends and home.
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D
Fly across the ocean, birdie, fly across the deep, blue sea !
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Take this message to my darling, she'll be glad
to hear from me.
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2. You have told me that you love me, but you haven’t proved it true,
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so
I'll go and court some other that will love me more than you.
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3. When the whippoorwills are singing across the dark and lonely sea,
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when
you're thinking of ten thousand,
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will
you sometimes think of me ?
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4. Now my heart is filled with sorrow, and my eyes are filled with
tears,
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no
I'll not forget you, darling, if I live ten thousand years.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (The Carter Family)