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30 Jul 25 - 11:15 AM (#4226434) Subject: Nancy shanty From: GUEST,Alan Griffiths I have five verses to this song and can’t find any more. The chorus is I wish I was with Nancy aye oh aye oh, on the second floor with two bob more I’d live and die with Nancy Aye oh, aye oh, I’d live and die with Nancy. Oh the things that put my heart all a flutter where her Balmoral boots as she cruised through the gutter. Down the Strand, down the Strand, down the Strand, down the Strand. Chorus Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton, tickling up the old girls bottom Down the Strand x 4 Chorus Oh we’re outward bound my. Nancy dear, we’ll leave you girls and be back next year. Down the Strand x4 Chorus Oh Nancy girl don’t be glum on white stocking day well drink hot rum. Down etc x4 Chorus And we get to Columbias shore of the girls back home we’ll think no more. Down etc x4 Chorus |
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30 Jul 25 - 11:27 AM (#4226435) Subject: RE: Nancy shanty From: Reinhard 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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05 Aug 25 - 04:49 PM (#4226788) Subject: RE: Nancy shanty - query lyrics & info From: GUEST,Alan Many thanks Reinhard, for the lyrics, and the link. Now to learn the new verses. |