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Posted by: Alice Franceschini asf@pon.netTHE NIGHT MISS NANCY ANNE'S HOTEL
FOR SINGLE GIRLS BURNT DOWN
Tex WilliamsThis song is based on running notes. See tab. Some folks don't want to play songs like that so I've taken the liberty and placed chords over the lyrics that sound good but is not what is done on the recording.
F C Bb C Bb F can be used in place of these single notes.
TAB - (Running notes): Listen to the recording for the timing----------------------------HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 28-Mar-03.
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----------------------------THE NIGHT MISS NANCY'S ANNE'S HOTEL
FOR SINGLE GIRLS BURNT DOWN
(Tex Williams)F C Bb F
A Miss Nancy Anne ran a boarding house with a faded sign that read
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"Single Rooms For Single Girls. No Men Allowed." It said;
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But rumor had it that a gentleman with a yen for love for a fee
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Could always go to Nancy Anne's for some feminine company.
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Well, one night in June in the Billiard Room was I chalking up with a friend.
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He was set to break when the door burst open and Leo James rushed in.
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He yelled, "There's a fire that's just broke out and it's down at Nancy Anne's!"
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So we dropped out cues on the pool room floor and into the street we ran.CHORUS 1:
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Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick, not a single life was lost;
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And the reason for the blaze was never found;
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But it'll long be remembered in our local history
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As the fire that fairly scandalized the town:
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The night Miss Nancy Anne's Hotel for Single Girls burnt down.
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When we got to the place, the front was ablaze and so was the second floor,
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So we cut around the side and up the alley and stopped aside the back door.
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We were catching our breath when the door flew open and knocked poor Leo flat,
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And out through the smoke ran Mayor Willed wearing nothing but a black silk hat.
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And right behind him with his shirttail afire came the local chief of police,
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And banker Jones with a red-haired girl he always called his niece,
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And then I spied Miss Nancy Anne herself helping someone else out of the fire
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Her arm around the red bald head of old Judge McIntyre.Key change
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A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff and one state congressman,
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The county physician, the city mortician, out through the flames they ran.
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The grand parade of girls in gowns and hat-clad gentlemen
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Through the thick gray smoke that certainly smelled like French perfume and gin.
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Though the flames were hot and smoke was thick, not a single life was lost,
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And the reason for the blaze was never found,
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But it'll long be remembered in our local history
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As the fire that fairly scandalized the town.[Key change…back to the first key]
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Now everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the time the roof caved in.
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We were heading back to the billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend.
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He said, "I believe that's the funniest show I've ever seen in town."
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"The so-called elite caught out in the street with their pompous purity down."Go to chorus 1.