Ellis Paul - Nellie Bly lyrics

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Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly was just a girl, born into world

But little girls barely matter

See even women couldn’t vote, the job just left them broke

So enclosed and … batter

Well Nellie didn’t think it was right

She took up a pen to fight for women’s rights

And she told the whole world, what it’s all about

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Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly, she was fly, like a private eye

She went undercover

Until the women’s meant award

See her pen was like a sword

She played it sick to be among the others

Because the patience they weren’t being treated right

She stayed in there for 10 whole days and nights

And then she told the whole world, what it’s all about

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Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly was just a girl, in a race around the world

Taking trains and ships on steam power

She sailed the China sea with her little pet monkey

Beating kings and getting flowers

Maybe at Hong Kong, Singapore…she was on American shores

Telling the whole wide world, what it’s all about

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Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try

Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, the world could be yours

If you try, if you try.