Spla-Foot Nancy

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"Spla-foot Nance." I remember just one verse:

bard, ridiculing a neighbour, a big bony ungainly girl, universally known as

There was a half-comic song to this air, composed in my own time by a local

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X:132
T:Spla-Foot Nancy
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
H:There was a half-comic song to this air, composed in my own time by a local
H:bard, ridiculing a neighbour, a big bony ungainly girl, universally known as
H:"Spla-foot Nance."  I remember just one verse:
W:There was Spla-foot Nancy
W:To try her chance,
W:  She took a notion of a man:
W:She stood on her toes
W:And says she: "Here goes;
W:  I'll cock my hat at Shaun MacCann."
W:So Spla-foot Nance
W:Began to dance
W:  And off to Shaun's little house she ran;
W:But his mother rushed out
W:With a terrible shout:
W:  "How daar you come coortin to Shaun MacCann!"
O:Irish
R:song
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:G
B/A/|\
G2 A B2 d|e2 d g2 f|efg d2 B|c2 A A2 B/A/|
G2 A B2 d|e2 d g2 e|=f2dc2 A|A2 G G2||d|
g2 f e2 d|e2 f gfe|d2 B c2 d|e2 A A2 B/A/|
GAG BAB|def g2 e|=fef dcA|A2 G G2||

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