Her version of "Once in a Very Blue Moon" is amazing, the one she did on Austin city Limits is great too but this version is fantastic. I love how her voice is soft and gentle, but at other times has this slap in it that wakes you right up. A really underrated, fine, fine singer.
38 years on here I am listening to you sing when the world see us living in very troubled times. Now listening to you Nanci is balm for the soul. Thank you !
1st song proper title and correction: *"Daddy Said"* Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker, and they'd say, "Six to one a half dozen'll break her", 'till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues Oh, bless my daddy, he warned me well He'd whisper in my ear and say, "Now look out, gal, There's always a ne'er do well gonna call you the fool" He said, "you'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin' And it's a pity that you're lover died young, but, You'll never get tired of livin' alone". So, now I dream of the lover that I don't know It's safer this way ''cause I don't have to go, oh, and he Won't come, so nobody goes away Sometimes I wish for the warmth of his hand Take a look in these eyes and understand I'm just a little too old to be a-learnin' the rules of the game He said, "you'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin' And it's a pity that you're lover died young, but, You'll never get tired of livin' alone". Oh, maybe I could take him to Mexico We'd kick our heels in the warm cloudy gulf He'd sing a song about the weather in the Poconos; This lover that I don't know Then two hearts would pound 'stead of one in the night I'd learn to fish with my own line Catch my dream and hope that line would hold He said, "you'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin' And it's a pity that you're lover died young, but, You'll never get tired of livin' alone". No, I never get tired of livin' alone Sometimes my feet get cold, when I'm livin' alone,
*(Roseville Fair)* Oh, the night was clear And the stars were shinin' And the moon came up so quiet in the sky All the people gathered 'round And the band was a-tunin' I could hear them now Playin' "Comin' Through The Rye" You were dressed in blue And you looked so lovely Just a gentle flower Of a small-town girl You took my hand And we stepped to the music With a single smile You became my world And we danced all night To the fiddle and the banjo Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air So long ago, but I still remember When we fell in love at the Roseville Fair Now we courted well And we courted dearly And we'd rock for hours In the front porch chair Then a year went by From the time that I met you And I made you mine At the Roseville Fair And we danced all night To the fiddle and the banjo Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air So long ago, but I can still remember When we fell in love at the Roseville Fair And here's a song for all of the lovers And here's a tune that they can share May they dance all night To the fiddle and the banjo The way we did at the Roseville Fair May they dance all night To the fiddle and the banjo The way we did at the Roseville Fair
She had leukemia when she was in her teens. She beat it. It returned again later in life. She fought it but unfortunately it took her. Kate Wolf was a great friend of her's. Wolf passed with cancer and part of Nancy seemed to go with her. Listen to the Nancy's version of "across the great divide" Written by Kate Wolf. My sweet angel Nancy rest in peace.😢
