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



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