Annotation:Streams of Lovely Nancy
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'STREAMS OF LOVELY NANCY'. English, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. “The Streams of Lovely Nancy” is a ballad found in Britain and Ireland, collected by Vaughn Williams (1905), printed in The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. According to Stephen Roud, the earliest published versions are from around 1800, and it is likely Cornish in origin.
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Oh, the streams of lovely Nancy are divided in three parts,
Where the young men and maidens they do meet their sweethearts;
It is drinking of good liquor caused my heart for to sing,
And the noise in yonder village made the rocks for to ring.
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