Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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tale about love I know
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Makes Romeo and Juliet
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seem cold as winter snow.
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loved big fat Nellie Cole.
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Miss Nellie owned a third of Texas,
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El Paso that day
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away from Nell,
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said great big Bill Moran,
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scared every cowpoke in the West
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Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly,
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Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, Nelly of Texas
Her spread was bigger
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along the Rio Grande.
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this cowhand Bill Moran.
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that wooed my Nellie Cole.
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Since then it's been one a year.
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I guess Nellie's getting old.
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All you guys stay away from Nell.
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One day I'll be her man.
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And if I can't have her,
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No one can along the Rio Grande
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Nellie, Nellie, Nellie
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I've come to town to nail your hide,
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said Nellie to Big Bill
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You're making me out an old maid,
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you ornery, stubborn heel
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Leave El Paso for sunset,
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dang you, Bill Moran
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I'm coming for you, guns a -blazin',
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You never told me, Nellie cried,
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cowpoke, you gotta die
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You drilled each love I ever knew
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along the Rio Grande
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How come you didn't speak up,
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Bill, I need myself a man
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Scared to death of women,
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Nel lie, swear I am, said Bill
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Look at me, I'm ugly as mud,
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this face can't be for real
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Heck, that don't matter, Nellie sighed,
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Doggone, Bill, you're a man!
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Put up that six -gun, lover boy,
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and take this gal by the hand.
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Nellie, Nellie, Nellie, Nellie,
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Nellie, Nellie, Nellie,
about Nellie Hope.
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Nell Paso had ever seen.
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All the Juarez crossed the bridge,
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they dressed Nell like a queen.
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Nellie sprung for thirteen dozen
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barrels of Juarez booze.
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That Nell hung tight to Bill,
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Now you take Shakespeare's Romeo,
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not like Bill Moran
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Sure, Bill was bashful,
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but he got her, got his Nellie Cole
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Them lovers had no imagination
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long, long time ago
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