X:190
T: Nancy Lee
C: music: Stephen Adams
C: words: Frederick E. Weatherly
Q: "With spirit."
%R: jig
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/190_Nancy_Lee.abc 2024-11-23 234338 UT
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b | B3- B2c | B2G E2C | (B,3- B,EG) | B2 "^>"c3 | "^>"B3- B FG | A3 "^>"c3 |
w: 1.~Of all* the wives as e'er you know,____ Yeo-ho!* lads!* ho! Yeo-
w: 2.~The har-*bor's past, the breez-es blow,____ Yeo-ho!* lads!* ho! Yeo-
w: 3.~The bo'-*s'n pipes the watch be-low,____ Yeo-ho!* lads!* ho! Yeo-
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"^>"B3- B EF | G2z z2B | B3- B2c | B2G E2C | (B,3- B,EG) | B2 "^>"e3 |
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho! There's none* like Nan-cy Lee, I trow,____ Yeo-
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho! 'Tis long* ere we come back, I know,____ Yeo-
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho! Then here's* a health be-fore we go,____ Yeo-
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"^>"d3- d "^>"G=A | B3- B "^>"=AB | G3 z2z | z2z z2G | A2A B2B |
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho!* Yeo-*ho! See there she stands an'
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho!* Yeo-*ho! But true an' bright from
w: ho!* Yeo-*ho!* Yeo-*ho! A long, long life to
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c2c d2d | B3- B2G | B3 z2G | B2B =A2A | _A2A F2F |
w: waves her hand up-on* the quay, An' ev-'ry day when I'm a-way she'll
w: morn till night my home* will be, An' all so neat an' snug an' sweet for
w: my sweet wife an' mates* at sea, An' keep my bones from Da-vy Jones wher-
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c3- c2 B=A | B3 z2B | B2B c2c | d2d e2c | B3- B2G | B3 "^>"c3 |
w: watch* for* me, An' whis-per low when tem-pests blow, for Jack* at sea; Yeo-
w: Jack* at* sea, An' Nan-cy's face to bless the place, an' wel-*come me; Yeo-
w: e'er* we* be, An' may you meet a mate as sweet as Nan-*cy Lee; Yeo-
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"^>"d3-d BG | F3- F EC | B,3 z2z | z2z B3 | e3- e2B | e2B d2c |
w: ho!* lads!* Ho!* Yeo-*ho! The sail-*or's wife the sail-or's
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B3- B2G | E3 "^>"c3 | "^>"B3- B FG | A3 c3 | B3- B EF | G3- G2B | e3- e2B |
w: star* shall be; Yeo-ho!* we* go a-cross* the* sea;* The sail-*or's
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w: wife the sail-or's star* shall be, The sail-or's wife his star shall be.*
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