Nancy's to the Greenwood Gane
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- "Nancy’s to the Greenwood Gane" in Old Maids (1821)
- "Scornfu' Nancy" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843)
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"This humorous and once popular song appears in the first edition of the Orpheus Caledonius, along with the music, in 1725. It is, however, of much earlier date, as Ramsay, in his Miscellany, marks it as one, even in his day, of an unknown age. Gay, the poet, selected the air (which goes by the name of Nancy's to the greenwood gane,) for one of his songs, beginning, 'In war we'e nought but death to fear.'" — "Scornfu' Nancy" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843)