Nancy's Fancy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Nancy's Fancy" is an English, Reel (2/4 time) or Country Dance Tune (2/2 time) in G Major<br> (Kennedy. Raven) or C Major (Karpeles, Sharp). It is played ABC (Karpeles, Sharp) or<br> AABC (Kennedy, Raven). The first part of this tune appears as the second part of the<br> Pennsylvania-collected "Cheat River (The)" (Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle, 1981).<br> Thomas Hardy, English novelist, fiddler and accordion player, mentions the tune in his<br> novel The Return of the Native (Book Second, chapter 5). <br> It was collected in Devonshire in 1907 by Cecil Sharp from William Ford, a sixty-two-year-old<br> blacksmith living at Upton Pyne, near Exeter. Ford was a concertina player and dancer for<br> most of his life. <br> It was printed in Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2 (1954), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> <br>
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