Here are the Digital Tradition Lyrics, with my corrections on the right. Corrections are very minor, based on the 1963 Judy Collins recording:

HEY NELLY NELLY (Digital Tradition) Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see He's riding into town on a sway back mule Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool He sure is talkin' like he's been to school And it's 1853 Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin' Hey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late And he says them black folks should all be free To walk around the same as you and me He's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy And it's 1858 Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a playing Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun "Cause the men are cheerin' and the boys are too They're all puttin' on their coats of blue I can't sit around here and talk to you "Cause it's 1861 Hey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, I've come back alive My coat of blue is stained with red And the man in the tall black hat is dead We sure will remember all the things he said In 1865 Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side They're walkin' in a column that's a century wide It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride In 1963 @war @American @Civil war @Civil rights @Negro by Shel Silverstein and Jim Friedman recorded by Judy Collins filename[ HEYNELLY SOF

HEY NELLY NELLY (Corrected) (James Friedman and Shel Silverstein) Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see He's riding into town on a swayback mule Got a tall black hat and he looks like a fool He sure is talkin' like he's been to school And it's 1853 Hey Nelly Nelly, listen what he's sayin' Hey Nelly Nelly, he says it's gettin' late And he says them black folks should all be free To walk around the same as you and me He's talkin' 'bout a thing he calls democracy And it's 1858 Hey Nelly Nelly hear the band a-playing Hey Nelly Nelly, hand me down my gun 'Cause the men are cheerin' and the boys are too They're all puttin' on their coats of blue I can't sit around here and talk to you 'Cause it's 1861 Hey Nelly Nelly, Come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, I've come home alive My coat of blue is stained with red And the man in the tall black hat is dead We sure will remember all the things he said In 1865 Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window Hey Nelly Nelly, look at what I see I see white folks and colored walkin' side by side They're walkin' in a column that's a century wide It's still a long and a hard and a bloody ride In 1963 @war @American @Civil war @Civil rights @Negro by Shel Silverstein and Jim Friedman recorded by Judy Collins filename[ HEYNELLY SOF

Here's the 1963 Judy Collins recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ujW5ev7Rk

Gram Parsons recording of "Hey Nellie Nellie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OFRzxvt0k

Recording by The Womenfolk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nJzMS0Q4M

Live recording by Joe and Eddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KhBN3Tjokc - they sing "And he says that all folks deserve to be free"

In the 1865 verse, some artists sing, "Hey Nelly Nelly, now the war is over...."