Gentle Nettie Moore, or, The Little White Cottage

DESCRIPTION: "In a little white cottage, where the trees are ever green... I've often sat and listened to the music of hte birds, And the gentle voice of pretty Nettie Moore." But she is gone, and he misses her -- a trader from Louisiana bought her. He longs to die
AUTHOR: Words: Marshall S. Pike / Music: "C. S. P." / Chorus and arrangement: James S. Pierpont (source: sheet music published by Oliver Ditson & Co.)
EARLIEST DATE: 1857 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love separation slave
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
We-Parted-By-the-River-Side-Songster, p. 41, "Nettie Moore" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #6, p. 13, "Gentle Nettie Moore (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1574, p. 107, "Nettie Moore" (1 reference)
Roud #6971
NOTES [48 words]: This sounds so much like "Darling Nelly Gray" that I can't help but think it a deliberate attempt to cash in on the popularity of that song. It can even be sung to the same tune.
There is apparently also a Bob Dylan song by this title, which I know nothing about. A parody of a parody? - RBW
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File: WPRS041

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