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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 in 1851 and first performed by White's Serenaders. 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.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Christy's Banjo Method, 1859. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 408, p. 46.

Recorded sources: Victor 21430 (78 RPM), Frank Crumit (1928).

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