Darling Nellie Gray
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Benjamin Russell Hanby
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Darling Nellie Gray", also known as "Nelly Grey" or "Old Nelly Grey" is an American<br> air and dance tune in D Major (sometimes given in B Flat Major or G Major).<br> The parts are played AB, AA'B or AABB.<br> This is a dance version of an abolitionist song composed by Benjamin Russell Hanby<br> in 1856, while a student at Otterbein College, Ohio. The popular song became a<br> rallying anthem for the abolitionist movement.<br> New England dance caller Peter Yarensky remarks that this is often the last called<br> (singing) dance of the evening at many New Hampshire dances, "especially (in the<br> mid-20th century) the dances of Ralph Page and Duke Miller in the Monadnock region<br> of the state." It is followed by a final waltz.<br> It was printed in Cazden's Dances from Woodland (1945),<br> Jarman's The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes (1944),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1(1875),<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician's No. 7: Michigan Tunes (1986-87),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996) and<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981). <br> <br>
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