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Thread #50701   Message #769970
Posted By: Genie
23-Aug-02 - 02:32 AM
Thread Name: Versions: Whiskey Nancy
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: NANCY WHISKEY
Here's the version I do.  It's a composite of the version I learned from Ian and Sylvia and the one in the DT.
Genie

NANCY WHISKEY      traditional Scots

C        Am            F       G          C         Am              F        G7
I am a weaver, a Calton weaver.  I am a brash and a roving blade.
F       C           F        G            C        Am        F        G
I will wander where I fancy, And I will follow a roving trade.

     C           Am        F         G
  Whiskey, whiskey, Nancy Whiskey
     C           Am         F G   C
  Whiskey, whiskey, Nancy O

As I walked out into Glasgow city, Nancy Whiskey I chanced to smell.
I walked in and I sat down beside her.  Seven long years I loved her well.

chorus

The mair I kissed her, the mair I loved her.
The mair I kissed her, the mair she smiled.
I forgot my mother's teaching;
Nancy soon had me beguiled.

chorus
 

I woke early in the mornin'.
Tae slake ma drought it was my need.
I tried to rise but was not able;
Nancy kicked me in the heid.

chorus
 

"Come, landlady, noo, what's that lawin'?
Tell me what there is tae pay."
"Fifteen shillings is the reck'ning.
Noo pay me quickly and go away!"

chorus

I'll gang back to the Calton weaving,
I'll surely mak' those shuttles fly.
I'll mak more at the Calton weaving
Than ever I did in a roving way.

chorus
 

       C              Am            F         G
So come all ye weavers, ye Calton weavers,
C                     F       G
Weavers where e'er ye be,
      F         C           F       G
Beware of whiskey, Nancy Whiskey.
          C     Am                F       G
She'll ruin you like she blinded me.
 

chorus