Thomas and Nancy Songtext
von Figgy Duff

In Bristol there lived a fair damsel
And she in beauty most bright
A sailor he loved her fond company
Far dearer than he loved his own life
But when her old father he heard it
He swore that it never would be
I′ll send you far from your own country
And I'll send that young sailor to sea


Oh Thomas, oh Thomas, bright Nancy
We had vowed that we never would part
She fell on the beach broken-hearted
And the tears from her pale eyes did start
He pressed this fair maid to his bosom
As the tears down her cheeks fast did flow
He kissed her cold lips and they parted
And he bid her a loving farewell

Our ship reached the port and returning
Like some sea bird she danced o′er the foam
While Thomas lay on his soft pillow
Dreamed of Nancy and parents and home
There was lightning and loud peals of thunder
There was lightning flashed over the main
The rocks with turf would ship asunder
And the blue matter watery gray


To the beach, to the beach Nancy oft had visited
She beheld a most terrible sight
'Twas the corpse of her Thomas they carried
To the place where they oft times had been
Next day there were two lying lovers
Cut down in the height of their bloom
It was said that they loved one another
And was both buried into one tomb