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'''NANCY TILL.''' AKA and see "[[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 "Nancy Dill" with the alternate title "[[Cane Break (2) (The)]]," among English country dancing classics. | |||
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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 "Nancy Dill" with the alternate title "Cane Break (2) (The)," among English country dancing classics.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Christy's Banjo Book, 1859. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 408, p. 46.
Recorded sources: Victor 21430 (78 RPM), Frank Crumit (1928).