Stephen Foster

“ Nelly Bly shuts her eye when she goes to sleep,
When she wakens up again her eye-balls 'gin to peep:
De way she walks, she lifts her foot, and den she brings it down,
And when it lights der's music dah in dat part ob de town.
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Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! Nebber, nebber sigh,
Nebber bring de tear-drop to de corner ob your eye,
For de pie is made ob punkins and de mush is made of corn,
And der's corn and punkins plenty, lub, a lyin' in de barn. ”