Nellie Kane

As a young man I went riding out on the western plain

 

In the state of North Dakota, I met my Nellie Kane, I met my Nellie Kane

 

She was livin' in a lonely cabin with a son by another man

 

For five years she had waited for him, just as long as a woman can, as long as a woman can

CHORUS:

I don't know what changed my mind, 'til then I was the ramblin' kind

 

The kind of love I can't explain, that I have for Nellie Kane

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK:

 

She had took me on to work that day and helped me till the land

 

In the afternoon we planted seeds, in the evenin' we held hands; In the evenin' we held hands

 

Her blue eyes told me everything a man could want to know

 

It was then I realized that I would never know; I would never go (Chorus)

 

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK:

Now many years have gone by and our son has grown up tall

 

I became a father to him and she became my all; She became my all (Chorus)

 

* First recorded by Hot Rize and later by Tim O’Brien (on his own) and many others