This (more-or-less) is a transcription of how I've heard 'Hang on the Bell Nellie' sung.
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T:Hang on the Bell Nellie
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w:The scene was in the jail-house and if cur-few rang that night, The
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w:guy in num-ber thir-teen cell would go out like a light. She
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w:knew her dad was in-no-cent, and so poor lit-tle Nell has
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w:tied her ten-der tor-so to the clapper of the bell. Oh_
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w:Hang on the Bell Nel-lie, hang on the bell, Your
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w:poor Daddy's locked in a cold pri-son cell. As you
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w: swing to the left, and you swing to the right, Re-
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w:mem-ber   that cur-few must ne-ver ring to-night.