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Reinhard Nancy shanty - query lyrics & info (3) RE: Nancy shanty 30 Jul 25


That's Roud 13250.

See In the Strand at Folk Song and Music Hall:

IN THE STRAND

For the last three week’s I've been dodging,
A girl I know who has a lodging,
In Strand, in the Strand;
The first thing that put my heart in a flutter
Was a Balmoral boot as she crossed the gutter.
In Strand, in the Strand:

I wish I was Nancy oh! Heigho,
In a second floor for evermore
To live and die with Nancy.

A pork pie hat with a little feather,
A new knickerbocker for the dirty weather,
In Strand, in the Strand;
Some pretty petticoats too she’d got them,
Trimm’d with embroidery round the bottom.
In Strand, in the Strand;

One night as I was out for a run,
I saw my Nancy buying a bun .
In Strand, in the Strand;
I told my love and down did fall,
Slap on my knees by Exeter Hall,
In the Strand, in the Strand.

I popp’d the question neat and nobby,
When she said, “Get Up here comes a Bobby!"
In Strand, in the Strand;
But said she to me, “Don’t look so blue.
For I’ll marry you in a week or two,
In Strand, in the Strand;

I never shall forget the day
When to Church we led the way
In Strand, in the Strand;
The folks did laugh and some did sing,
I thought I’d done a tidy thing
In Strand, in the Strand;

I married her off without any fuss
Bought a cradle and got a nurse
In Strand, in the Strand;
I never repent me going out west,
For all the wives you get the best
In Strand, in the Strand.

A parody sung to the tune of a now more famous American song: Dixie. It was collected by Cecil Sharp from the singing of John Short in 1914, who sang it as a capstan shanty – a sailor’s work song used when turning the capstan.


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