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Introduction: A E A
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Oh, the night was dark and stormy, when this me….ssage came to me,
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it was from my darling Nellie, who is far across the sea.
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Oh dear Jack, I know I'm dying, I've no friends nor parents nigh,
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but remember, dearest Jackie, there's a home for us on high.
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Oh dear mother, I must leave you, I must go across the sea,
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I must find my darling Nellie, who so dea…...rly cared for me.
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I was wandering through the grave yard, when I found where Nellie lay,
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it was there my heart was broken, it was there I knelt and prayed.
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Now I'm left alone in sadness on the fields of flowery Spain,
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and the girl I love is sleeping in the cold and silent grave.
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Lay me where my Nellie's sleeping, close beside her let me lie,
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where the blooming flowers are creeping,
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there, oh lay me, when I die.