"(You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You) Nellie Dean" is a sentimental ballad in common time by Henry W. Armstrong, published in 1905 by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City.

[1] The original sheet music is scored in B-flat major for voice and piano and marked andante moderato.

In 1945, when he was 66, Billboard magazine reported he "picked up an extra hand from the British seamen with his throating of 'Nellie Dean'" during a show in Brooklyn put on by the entertainment unit of the Songwriters' Protective Association.

[4] Ellen (Nelly) Dean is the main narrator of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights, but its plot bears no apparent relation to the lyrics of this song.

The song was recorded by vocal duo Byron G. Harlan (tenor) and Frank C. Stanley (baritone) with orchestral accompaniment in 1905 on Edison Gold Moulded phonograph cylinder.