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