Nellie Cane

Hot Rize

Written by Tim O'Brien

Key of C · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

     C
As a young man I went riding out on the western plain
                                             Am
In the state of North Dakota I met my Nellie Kane,
  G             C
I met my Nellie Kane
        C
She was livin' in a lonely cabin with a son by another man
                                                                Am
For five years she had waited for him, just as long as a woman can,
   G               C
As long as a woman can

Chorus

        F                    C
I don't know what changed my mind
            G                C
'til then I was the ramblin' kind
            F              C
The kind of love I can't explain
       G               C
That I have for Nellie Kane

Verse 2

        C
She had took me on to work that day and helped me till the land
                                                          Am
In the afternoon we planted seeds, in the evenin' we held hands,
       G               C
In the evenin' we held hands
    C
Her blue eyes told me everything a man could want to know
                                          Am
It was then I realized that I would never know
G             C
I would never go

Chorus

        F                    C
I don't know what changed my mind
            G                C
'til then I was the ramblin' kind
            F              C
The kind of love I can't explain
       G               C
That I have for Nellie Kane

Verse 3

    C
Now many years have gone by and our son has grown up tall
                                           Am
I became a father to him and she became my all,
G             C
She became my all

Chorus

        F                    C
I don't know what changed my mind
            G                C
'til then I was the ramblin' kind
            F              C
The kind of love I can't explain
       G               C
That I have for Nellie Kane
       G               C
That I have for Nellie Kane