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