Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy

from Love, Crime, and Fiddle Music - album in progress by Duncan Cameron

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Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu
I'm a-going round the ocean, love, to seek for something new
Come change your ring with me, dear girl, come change your ring with me,
For it might be a token of true love while I am on the sea.

When I am far upon the sea, you knows not where I am
Kind letters I will write to you from every foreign land
The secrets of your heart, dear girl, are the best of my good will
So let my body be where it might, my heart is with you still.

But when the wars are over, there'll be peace on every shore
We will drink to our wives and our children, and the girls that we adore
We'll call for liquor merrily, and spend out money free
And when the money it is all gone, we'll boldly go to sea.

So adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu
I'm a-going round the ocean, love, to seek for something new
Come change your ring with me, dear girl, come change your ring with me,
For it might be a token of true love while I am on the sea.

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from Love, Crime, and Fiddle Music - album in progress, released March 1, 2017
Produced and arranged by Duncan Cameron. All instruments played by Duncan Cameron.

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Duncan Cameron Sudbury, Ontario

Raised in a musical family, Duncan Cameron has been a member of many groups including The Pierre Schryer Band (Juno nominated in 2004), Fig For a Kiss (nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2006), and Fagroongala and The Irish Descendants. He has toured across North America and Europe singing in French and English and playing fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, tin whistle, harmonica and bodhrán. ... more

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