HAM/05/32/29	Since You Say So My Dear Nancy
HAM-02-238.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-01-690.gif 	Hammond's field notes - words
HAM-05-076.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-077.gif 	fragment
HAM-05-078.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-238.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[left of title:] Dorian 533
[title:] 'Since you say so, my dearest Nancy'
[right of title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[left of first stave:] or 3/2 time.
[Hammond counts incomplete bars - PJH]
[leader lines from bars 2 and 6 go to text below tune:] Bars 3 & 7 seemed to be in 3/2 time: the rest is 5/4 except the last two bars. Excepting these last bars, the whole tune would go in 5/4 or in 3/2 time. Words D VII. p71.
[there is also a leader to a separate bar on the verso leaf marked:] variant

HAM-01-690.gif 	Hammond's field notes - words
[above title:] D797
[above and right of title:] Tune 533
[title:] (Fragt) Since you say so, my dearest Nancy.
[right of title:] Russell
Since you say so, my dearest Nancy
There is one thing more shall crown our breast
That's you & I'll be joined together
And along with you I will take my rest
Then to church they did repair
Which banished all their grief & care
Married they were together.
[on verso leaf, opposite words:]
He waved his hat, she waved her fan
Much like some goddess bright she stand
Ready for to receive him
[there is what might be a question mark aqbove the word "breast"]

HAM-05-076.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
[left of title:] 533
[title:] Since You Say So, My Dearest Nancy
[below title, on sticky label:] D.797
[right of label:] Mrs. Russell, Upwey
[above tune:] OR IN 3/2 Time
[segno symbols above starts of bars 2 and 6, then, below tune a segno followed by:]
Bars 3 & 7 seemed to be in 3/2 time; the rest in 5/4 except the last two bars. Excepting these last bars, the whole tune would go in 5/4 or 3/2 time. (H.E.D.H.)
[page is initialled:] FEP

HAM-05-077.gif 	fragment
[this is about half a page of stave paper, with in top right:] With DT. 797
[in top left:] CF with 533.
[title, top centre:] Fair Sally lov'd a bonny Seaman.
[below and left of title, in brackets:] Transposed from D minor. [signed:] A.G.G.
[below and right of title:] "Set by Dr Green"
[words below stave:] Fair Sally lov'd a bonny seaman,
With tears she sent him out to roam,
Young Thomas lov'd no other wo-man,
But left his heart with her at home.
She view'd the sea from off the hill
And while she turn'd her spin-ning wheel
Sung of her bonny sea-man.
[below tune:] "Published aqccording to Act of Parliament 1739."

HAM-05-078.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words
[no title]
[on sticky label, top centre:] D797.
Note-book D.VII. p.71.	Mrs. Marina Russell,
				Upwey, Dorset.
				Jan/Feb. 1907.

Since you say so, my dearest Nancy,
There is one thing more shall crown our breast, (?)
That's you and I'll be joined together,
And along with you I will take my rest,
	Then to church they did repair,
Which banished all their grief and care,
	Married they were together.

He waved his hat, she waved her fan,
Much like some goddess bright she stand,
	Ready for to receive him.

[This material prepared by P J Headford, Nov 2010]