Rhythm: song
Key: G
Meter: 6/8
Origin: Irish
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: There was a half-comic song to this air, composed in my own time by a local
bard, ridiculing a neighbour, a big bony ungainly girl, universally known as
"Spla-foot Nance." I remember just one verse:
Words:
There was Spla-foot Nancy
To try her chance,
She took a notion of a man:
She stood on her toes
And says she: "Here goes;
I'll cock my hat at Shaun MacCann."
So Spla-foot Nance
Began to dance
And off to Shaun's little house she ran;
But his mother rushed out
With a terrible shout:
"How daar you come coortin to Shaun MacCann!"

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