| Lyrics: | STEP IT OUT, NANCY
(Robin Williams and Jerome Clark)
(reworking of Irish
song)
Near Cheyenne in Wyoming, there's a maiden fine and fair
Her eyes they shone
like diamonds, she had long and golden hair
When the cattleman came riding, he came to her
father's door
Mounted on a milkwhite pony, he came at the stroke of four
Step it
out Nancy, pretty darling
Step it out Nancy, if you can
Step it out Nancy, pretty
darling
Show your legs to the wealthy man
I've come to court your daughter, Nancy
of the golden hair
I have wealth and I have money, I have goods beyond compare
I will buy
her silks and satins and a gold ring for her hand
I will build for her a mansion, she'll have
servants to command
Can't you see I love a cowboy, and I've promised him my hand
I
don't want your goods and money
I don't want your house and land
Nancy's father spoke up
sharply, said you'll do as you are told
You'll be married on the Sunday, you will wear the ring
of gold
The cattleman spoke with fury, said you will not have that man
And he rode
from town in anger with his rifle in his hand
He came back from Colorado, on his pony wa a
sack
Deep red with the blood of the cowboy, slung across the back
Pretty Nancy cried
in anguish, she wept and tore her hair
She slipped into her father's room and found a pistol
lying there
On the Sunday came the wedding the town's folk gathered at noon
They saw Nancy
pull the pistol and shoot down that wealthy man
Nancy said, I am not sorry, when the jury
heard her tale
Though he rots beneath the ground and I shall rot in jail
There in the
crowded courtroom, twelve good men took their stand
Said we will not hold you, Nancy, for
killing that wealthy man
@murder @courtship @feminist
Copyright The New Music Times,
Inc.
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