Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window <br />Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see <br />He's riding into town on a sway back mule <br />Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool <br />He sure is talkin' like he's been to school <br />And it's 1853 <br /> <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin' <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late <br />And he says them black folks should all be free <br />To walk around the same as you and me <br />He's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy <br />And it's 1858 <br /> <br />Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a playing <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun <br />'Cause the men are cheerin' and the boys are too <br /> <br />They're all puttin' on their coats of blue <br />I can't sit around here and talk to you <br />'Cause it's 1861 <br /> <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, I've come back alive <br />My coat of blue is stained with red <br />And the man in the tall black hat is dead <br />We sure will remember all the things he said <br />In 1865 <br /> <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window <br />Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see <br />I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side <br />They're walkin' in a column that's a century wide <br />It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride <br />In 1963<br /><br />Sheldon Allan Silverstein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hey-nelly-nelly/
