Four-Eyed Nell

Song Description

As song based on the true story of Nell, a highly educated horse breeder who dared to live in a wild mining town with out a man.

Song Length 3:28 Genre , Folk - Rural
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Gloomy, Cruel Subject Murder, Rape, Violence
Era 1900 - 1920

Lyrics

Four-Eyed Nell
Karmann Powell copyright 2011
Moment of Grace Music/ASCAP

Back in the 19th century
Arizona was a wild territory
Poland was an untamed mining town
A handsome woman came around

She brought her horses and her books
Her bottle thick glasses didn't hurt her looks
Her hair was red and her deep blue eyes
Could pierce your soul and see the lies

Four-Eye Nell you just can't tell
Friend or foe you just don't know
Turn your back on the wrong one
You're at the bad end of a gun

Men would drool to see her ride
They could only wish she was by their side
She didn't need any man
One broke her heart, to Poland she ran

Some one went looking when Nell was late
They found her by the ranchers gate
Body drenched by the rain
With 2 holes in the back of her brain

Four-Eyed Nell you just can't tell
Friend or foe you just don't know
Turn your back on the wrong one
Your at the band end of a gun

Well, the rancher owned the mine he was mayor, too
He was magistrate and he owned the saloon
The bar closed down to hold the inquest
Evidence heard the jury recessed

Two bullets in the brain in the back of Nell's head
Was the obvious cause of death
There was one fact no one could hide
Nell's untimely death.....

Was a suicide

Judgment made life went on
Nell's horses went to the ranchers son
No long after, the mine closed down
Poland became a very dead town

Four-Eyed Nell was buried deep
But her weary soul does not sleep
It is calmed by this ode
At least her story has been told

Four-Eyed Nell you just can't tell
Friend or foe you just don't know
Turn your back on the wrong one
You're at the bad end of a gun

Four-Eyed Nell you just can't tell
Friend or foe you just don't know
Turn your back on the wrong guy
Your murder becomes a suicide

No justice to be found
In an untamed mining town.

Lyrics Karmann Powell Music Karmann Powell
Producer Stan Powell Publisher Moment of Grace Music
Performance Karmann Powell, Joe Brokaw, John "Whiteboy" Walden

Four-Eyed Nell

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