{"id":1486,"date":"2019-03-05T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=1486"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:05:32","slug":"darling-nelly-gray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/darling-nelly-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Darling Nelly Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An anti-slavery song from 1856<br>words and music by Benjamin Russel Hanby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This beautiful, but sad song is from the slave&#8217;s viewpoint. It puts you in the mind of the slave. This has the effect of raising awareness of slavery. It worked like Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin and My Old Kentucky Home. Benjamin Hanby is called &#8220;The Stephen Foster of Ohio.&#8221; He also wrote Up On the Housetop and some white spirituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Darling-Nelly-Gray.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Darling-Nelly-Gray - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7321b8ef-7f0e-4cfc-8050-fb99de11efba\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Darling-Nelly-Gray.pdf\">Darling-Nelly-Gray &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Darling-Nelly-Gray.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7321b8ef-7f0e-4cfc-8050-fb99de11efba\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment by Werner Tomaschewski:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2d6c7dc4-ea79-42a9-b588-affe4810f261\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Darling-Nelly-Gray.mid\">Darling-Nelly-Gray &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Darling-Nelly-Gray.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2d6c7dc4-ea79-42a9-b588-affe4810f261\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There\u2019s a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore<br>There I\u2019ve whiled many happy hours away<br>A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door<br>Where lived my darling Nelly Gray<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away<br>And I\u2019ll never see my darling any more<br>I\u2019m sitting by the river and I\u2019m weeping all the day<br>For you\u2019ve gone from the old Kentucky shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>When the moon had climb\u2019d the mountain<br>And the stars were shining too<br>Then I\u2019d take my darling Nelly Gray<br>And we\u2019d float down the river in my little red canoe<br>While my banjo sweetly I would play<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One night I went to see her but<br>\u201cShe\u2019s gone!\u201d the neighbors say<br>The white man bound her with his chain<br>They have taken her to Georgia to wear her life away<br>As she toils in the cotton and the cane<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My canoe is under water and my banjo is unstrung<br>I\u2019m tired of living any more<br>My eyes shall look downward and my songs shall be unsung<br>While I stay on the old Kentucky shore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way<br>Hark! there\u2019s somebody knocking at the door<br>Oh! I hear the angels calling and I see my Nelly Gray<br>Farewell to the old Kentucky shore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final chorus<br>Oh! my darling Nelly Gray, up in heaven there they say<br>That they\u2019ll never take you from me any more<br>I\u2019m a-coming-coming-coming, as the angels clear the way<br>Farewell to the old Kentucky shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5zIfpWakl4M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.] An anti-slavery song from 1856words and music by Benjamin Russel Hanby This beautiful, but sad song is from the slave&#8217;s viewpoint. It puts you in the mind of the slave. This has the effect of raising awareness of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/darling-nelly-gray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darling Nelly Gray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-nY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1486\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}