Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Nancy Whiskey

I'm a weaver, a Calton weaver
I'm a rash and a roving blade
I've got silver in my pocket
And I follow the roving trade

Chorus:
Whiskey, whiskey, Nancy Whiskey
Whiskey, whiskey, Nancy-o

As I rode in through Glasgow city
Nancy Whiskey, I chanced to smell
I went in, sat down beside her
Seven long years, I loved her well

The more I kissed her, the more I loved her
The more I kissed her, the more she smiled
Soon I forgot my mother's teaching
Nancy soon had me beguiled

So I rose early in the morning
To slack my thirst, it was my need
I tried to rise, but I was not able
Nancy had me by the knees

So, I'm going back to the Calton weaving
I'll surely make them shuttles fly
For I made more at the Calton weaving
Than ever I did in a roving way

So, come all you weavers, you Calton weavers
Come all you weavers, where'er you be
Beware of whiskey, Nancy Whiskey
She'll ruin you like she ruined me

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk

[Dunkleosteus9]

My parents played this song during my childhood.

[VoidMaid]

I've been looking everywhere for this, thanks for posting!

[voivodvlad1]

I like this, but I enjoy the spark of the live recordings a little better. Still, this is great, especially to get all the words and chords. Well done lads-rest in peace!

[er20092009]

@Dunkleosteus9 which is what made you a fuckin' white bitch homosexual presumably!!!! LOL

[PeterRanzmaus]

Nice, but the Dubliners do it better

[PetroniusSatyricon69]

I think this version is the best, although a little slow in tempo. The lives ones are messy with bad sound. They take more care in the studio recording.

[TheePaintballr1988]

best song to sing at the very end of a great party and there are only a hand full of people still walkin

[jamesbyker]

u have just put my almum on here...thanks

[Horwitz86]

@bigman1916 they're wearing monkey suits...thats not gansta

[bigman1916]

@Horwitz86  MORON !!!!!!!!

[irishpride9999]

@vinmanc1 It's really too bad isn't it.

[Bryan198026]

They'll be sorely missed. Wish I could have seen them in concert, but I w'm too young to have caught them when they were all in their prime.