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The Nancy
Stan Rogers
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D5 C D5 C G D5 What clothes men wear do give them airs, the fellows do compare D5 C D5 C G A A colonel's regimentals shine, and women call him fair D5 C D5 D5 C G I am Alexander MacIntosh, nephew to the Laird D5 C G D5 And I do disdain men who are vain, the men with powdered hair D5 C D5 C G D5 I command the Nancy schooner from the Moy on Lake St. Claire D5 C D5 C G A On the third day of October, boys, I did set sail for there D5 C D5 D5 C G To the garrison at Amherstburg I quickly would repair D5 C G D5 With Captain Maxwell and his wife and kids and powdered hair G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 In regimentals bright G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 C G D5 With all his pomp and bluster there, aboard the Nancy-o D5 C D5 C G D5 Below the St. Clair rapids I sent scouts unto the shore D5 C D5 C G A To ask a friendly Wyandot to say what lay before D5 C D5 D5 C G "Amherstburg has fallen, with the same for you in store! D5 C G D5 And militias sent to take you here, fifty horse or more." D5 C D5 C G D5 Well up comes Captain Maxwell then, "Surrender, now, I say! D5 C G C G A Give up your Nancy schooner and make off without delay! D5 C D5 D5 C G Set me ashore, I do implore. I will not die this day!" D5 C G D5 Says I, "You go, or get below, for I'll be on my way!" G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 "Surrender, Hell!" I say G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 C G D5 "It's back to Mackinac I'll fight, aboard the Nancy-o." D5 C D5 C G D5 Well up comes Colonel Beaubien, then, who shouts as he draws near D5 C D5 C G A "Give up your Nancy schooner and I swear you've naught to fear D5 C D5 D5 C G We've got your Captain Maxwell, sir, spare yourself his tears." D5 C G D5 Says I, "I'll not but send you shot to buzz about your ears." D5 C D5 C G D5 We fired as we hove anchor, boys, and we got under way D5 C D5 C G A But scarce a dozen broadsides, boys, the Nancy did them pay D5 C D5 D5 C G Before the business sickened them, they bravely ran away D5 C G D5 All sail we made, and reached the Lake before the close of day G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 We sent them shot and cheers G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 C G D5 We watched them running through the trees, aboard the Nancy-o D5 C D5 C G D5 Military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray D5 C D5 C G A Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away D5 C D5 D5 C G The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way D5 C G D5 By poor and ragged sailor men who swore that they would stay G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 Six pence and pound a day G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 C G D5 No uniform for men to scorn, aboard the Nancy-o G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 Six pence and pound a day G F Aboard the Nancy F G D5 C G D5 No uniform for men to scorn, aboard the Nancy-o
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