Key: C major
Verse 1
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Nellie,
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Nellie, the
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Nellie of the
Valley
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You know it started at the bottom of
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Hill
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A skinny little girl crying in the field
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She had mopsty hair and
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Were coming apart from
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I said, hey little girl, look down right silly
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And she said, everybody calls me
Lily.
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So I wiped the tears,
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and I brushed off the hay.
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And I could tell that girl was
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gonna blossom one day.
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rose and black eyed shoes,
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and I didn't mind losing.
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And violet wasn't hard
to forget.
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But don't you know, don't you know,
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Hey, don't you know, don't you know,
When I picked the lily
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Lily, lily
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I picked the lily of the valley
Lily the valley
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When I picked the lily
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Oh, I picked the lily of the valley
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Oh!
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She started growing up
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And blossoming out
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So I hurried up and got a dog and started
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making preparations for a ring and a car
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And a big plantation because old
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And for the night it
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Don't you know, don't you know,
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don't you know, don't you know
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I'd have the lily of the valley.
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When I got a lily,
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I stole the lily of the valley.
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Oh, you know I loved that girl
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when she was skin and bone,
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when everybody else had
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nothing sitting all alone.
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Well, I loved that girl when
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And now she's standin' in the
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kitchen cookin' black -eyed peas
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Lily
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Sweet, sweet, sweet
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Lily
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You know I stole the lily of the valley
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I said when I got
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Lily
I stole the lily
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