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 ====== Faithless Nancy Dawson ======
+By Anna Bidder in 1964, but may have been devised around 1936.\\
-Tune: A rovin
+Tune: A rovin\\
 Longways; Duple Minor; Proper
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 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYSQJtF10A&t=9s
+Faithless Nancy Dawson
+This piece is based on the traditional sea chantey,
+"Faithless Nancy Dawson," also known as "A-Rovin,"
+from the lyrics of the chorus:
+"A-rovin', a-rovin',
+Since rovin's been my ru-i-in,
+We'll go no more a-rovin',
+With you fair maid."
+The song is apparently associated with the well-known
+London dancer and actress Ann Newton (1728-67), whose
+stage name was Nancy Dawson. She became famous for
+dancing a solo performance of a hornpipe between
+acts in a 1759 revival of John Gay's The Beggar's
+Opera at London's Covent Garden Theatre.
+Amsterdam Maid (Faithless Nancy Dawson)\\
+Dance: "Faithless Nancy Dawson"\\
+Song: "Amsterdam Maid", as sung by Stan Hugill, \\
+on Shanties of the Seven Seas\\
+<code>
+In Amsterdam there lived a maid,
+          Mark well what I do say,
+In Amsterdam there lived a maid
+And she was mistress of her trade.
+          We’ll go no more a’roving with you fair maids.
+          A’rovin, a’rovin, since rovin’s been my ruin
+          We’ll go no more a’roving with you fair maids
+One night I crept from my abode
+          Refrain
+One night I crept from my abode
+To meet this fair maid down the road.
+          Chorus
+I met this fair maid after dark
+An' took her to her favorite park
+I put me arm around her waist
+Sez she, "Young man yer in great haste!"
+I put me hand upon her knee,
+Sez she, "Young man, yer rather free!"
+I put my hand upon her thigh,
+Sez she, "Young man, yer awful high!"
+We laid down on a grassy patch,
+An' I felt like such a ruddy ass.
+I towed her to the Maiden's Breast,
+From south the wind veered wes'sou'west
+We had a drink -- of grub a snatch
+We sent two bottles down the hatch
+Her dainty arms were white as milk,
+Her lovely hair was soft as silk.
+Her heart was poundin' like a drum
+Her lips wuz red as any plum.
+She pushed me over on my back,
+She laughed so hard her lips did crack.
+She swore that she'd be true to me,
+But spent me pay-day fast and free.
+In three weeks time I wuz badly bent
+Then off to sea I sadly went.
+In a bloodboat Yank bound round Cape Horn,
+Me boots an' clothes wuz all in pawn.
+Bound round Cape Stiff through ice and snow
+An' up the coast of Callyo.
+An' then back to the Liverpool Docks,
+Saltpetre stowed in our boots an' socks.
+Now when I got back home from sea,
+A soldier had her on his knee.</code>

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