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Lovely Nancy and variations, Frederic Schuman

A popular song in the eighteenth century, the melody perhaps by James Oswald. It comes with variant lyrics: How can you, lovely Nancy Thus cruelly slight A swain who is wretched When banished your sight? And - less sentimentally - sung by a troupe of beggars in the ballad opera ‘The Jovial Crew’: Can nothing, Sir, move you, Our sorrows to mend; Have you nothing to give, Sir, Have you nothing to lend? My heart does so heave, I'm afraid it will break; Of victuals we've scarce had A morsel this week. The melody was much played by fife and drum bands at the time of the American Revolutionary War.