Streams of Lovely Nancy

X:16057
T:Streams of Lovely Nancy
S:Digital Tradition, lovnancy
Z:dt:lovnancy
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
W:Oh, the streams of lovely Nancy are divided in three parts
W:Where the young men and maidens they do meet their sweethearts.
W:It is drinking of good liquor caused my heart for to sing
W:And the noise in yonder village made the rocks for to ring.
W:
W:At the top of this mountain, there my love's castle stands,
W:It's all overbuilt with iv'ry on yonder black sand.
W:Fine arches, fine porches, like diamonds so bright,
W:It's a pilot for a sailor on a dark winter's night.
W:
W:On yonder high mountain where the wild fowl do fly
W:There is one amongst them that flies very high.
W:If I had her in my arms, love, near the diamond's black land
W:How soon I would secure her by the sleight of my hand.
W:
W:At the bottom of this mountain there runs a river clear.
W:A ship from the Indies did once anchor there,
W:With her red flags a-flying and the beating of her drum,
W:Sweet instruments of music and the firing of her gun.
W:
W:So come all you little streamers that walk the meadows gay.
W:I will write to my own true love wherever she may be,
W:For her rosy lips entice me, with her tongue she tells me "No,"
W:And an angel might direct us, and where shall we go?
W:
W:Oh, the streams of lovely Nancy are divided in three parts
W:Where the young men and maidens they do meet their sweethearts.
W:It is drinking of good liquor caused my heart for to sing
W:And the noise in yonder village made the rocks for to ring.
K:G
GG |G2 B2 DC|C2 B,2 B,C|D-G BA (3A-G-F|G4 FG|\
A2 d2 c-B|A-d c-B AG|B2 D3E/-D/|D4 FG|
A2 d2 cB|A-B c-B AG|B2 D2 D2|A2 d-c A-F|\
G2 B2 DC|C2 B,2 B,C|D2 G2 B-A|G4 ||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/12472
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/6315
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/12472
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mucl.de/~mdoering/dt-songs/0200
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/s/1363

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