Nettie Moore Lyrics

Lyric discussion by davide1015 

Cover art for Nettie Moore lyrics by Bob Dylan

In a book and around in the web i found this:

Apparently Nettie Moore was a girl and a slave who was sold away. It seems that the first 2 lines of a poem or a song published in 1850 are the same as Dylan's Nettie Moore.

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