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'''NANCY TILL.''' AKA and see "[[Cane Break (2) (The)]]," "[[Come Love Come]]," "[[Down in de Canebreak]]," "[[Nancy Dill]]." American, Air and Two-step (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A minstrel-era song written anonymously and published in 1851. It was first performed by White's Serenaders, a popular blackface minstrel troupe, and "Nancy Till" was their most popular song. The lyric begins: | '''NANCY TILL.''' AKA and see "[[Cane Break (2) (The)]]," "[[Come Love Come]]," "[[Down in de Canebreak]]," "[[Nancy Dill]]." American, Air and Two-step (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A minstrel-era song written anonymously and published in 1851. It was first performed by White's Serenaders, a popular blackface minstrel troupe, and "Nancy Till" was their most popular song. The lyric begins: | ||
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The tune appears in England in Peter Kennedy's '''Fiddler's Tune-Book''' (1951) as set as a schottishce, "Nancy Dill" with the alternate title "[[Cane Break (2) (The)]]." | The tune appears in England in Peter Kennedy's '''Fiddler's Tune-Book''' (1951) as set as a schottishce, "Nancy Dill" with the alternate title "[[Cane Break (2) (The)]]." | ||
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''Printed sources'': '''Christy's Banjo Book''', 1859. Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 2'''), c. 1880's; No. 408, p. 46. Lair('''100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites'''), 1935; p. 74. | ''Printed sources'': '''Christy's Banjo Book''', 1859. Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 2'''), c. 1880's; No. 408, p. 46. Lair ('''100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites'''), 1935; p. 74. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Victor 21430 (78 RPM), Frank Crumit (1928).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': | ||
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NANCY TILL. AKA and see "Cane Break (2) (The)," "Come Love Come," "Down in de Canebreak," "Nancy Dill." American, Air and Two-step (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A minstrel-era song written anonymously and published in 1851. It was first performed by White's Serenaders, a popular blackface minstrel troupe, and "Nancy Till" was their most popular song. The lyric begins:
CHO:
Oh, come love, come, de boat lies low,
She lies high and dry on de Ohio,
Come love, come, won't you go 'long wid me,
I'll take you down to Tennessee.
Down by de cane brake,
Close by de mill,
Dere I met a yaller gal,
And her name was Nancy Till;
She know'd dat I loved her,
She know'd it berry long,
I'm going to serenade her,
An' dis shall be de song.
The tune appears in England in Peter Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book (1951) as set as a schottishce, "Nancy Dill" with the alternate title "Cane Break (2) (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Christy's Banjo Book, 1859. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 408, p. 46. Lair (100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites), 1935; p. 74.
Recorded sources: Victor 21430 (78 RPM), Frank Crumit (1928).