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THE NIGHT MISS NANCY'S ANNE'S HOTEL FOR SINGLE GIRLS BURNT DOWN
Tex Williams Recorded by: Tex Williams
Writer: Dick Feller

[F] A Miss Nancy Anne ran a board-[C] ing house
with a [Bb] fade sing that [F] read
[F] "Single Rooms [C] For Single Girls.
[Bb] No Men Allowed." It [C] said
But [F] rumor had it [C] that a gentleman
with a [Bb] yen for love for a fee
Could al [F] ways go to Nan-[C] cy Anne's
for some femi-[Bb] nine comp-[F] any

Well [F] one night in June in the Bill-[C] iard Room
Was I chalk- [Bb] ing up with a [F] friend
[F] He was set to break when the [C] door burst open
and [Bb] Leo James rushed [C] in
He yell-[F] ed, "There's a fire that's [C] just broke out
and it's [Bb] down at Nancy Anne's!"
So we dropped out cues on the pool room floor
and into the street we ran

CHORUS 1:

[Bb] Though the flames were hot
and the [C] smoke was thick
not a sin [F] gle life was lost
[F] And the reason for the [Bb] blaze was never [C] found
But it'll [Bb] long be remembered in our [F] local history
[F] As the fire that fairly scandalized the [Bb] town
The [Bb] night Miss Nancy [F] Anne's Hotel
[C] For Single Girls burnt [F] down

When we got to the place the front was ablaze
and so was the second floor
So we cut around the side and up the alley
and stopped aside the back door
We were catching our breath when the door flew open
and knocked poor Leo flat
And out through the smoke ran Mayor Willed wearing nothing but a black silk hat

And right behind him with his shirt tail afire
came the local chief of police
And banker Jones with a red-haired girl
he always called his niece
And then I spied Miss Nancy Anne
herself helping someone else out of the fire Her arm around the red bald head
of old Judge McEntire

Key change

A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff
and one state congress-man
The county physician, the city mortic-ian
out through the flames they ran
The grand parade of girls in gowns
and hat claid gentle-men
Through the thick gray smoke that certainly smelled
like french perfume and gin
Though the flames were hot and smoke was thick
not a single life was lost
And the reason for the blaze was never found
But it'll long be remembered in our local history
As the fire that fairly scandalized the town.

Key change…back to the first key

Now everybody was out at the girl's hotel
by the time the roof caved in
We were heading back to the billiard hall
when Leo turned to my friend
He said, "I believe that's the funniest show
I've ever seen in town."
"The so called elite caught out in the street
with their pompous purity down."

Go to chorus 1.