Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
Traditional
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- [Traditional]
- Language
- English
- Comments
- This is a song of a sailor leaving. He must leave his sweetheart for war, but hopes for a safe return. The earliest known date of this work is sometime before 1854. It is also well known as "Adieu, Lovely Nancy", particularly in Australia. It is collected in the Roud Folk Song Index as number 165. The folk song "Farewell Nancy" has the same theme of a sailor leaving his girlfriend or wife, but it is a different work.
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