Thomas and Nancy - Lyrics - Figgy Duff
Figgy Duff was a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland. They played a major role in the Newfoundland cultural renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. Formed in 1976 by Noel Dinn, who named the band after a kind of traditional pudding, Figgy Duff travelled across Newfoundland, learning traditional songs. They performed with some distinct elements of rock and roll.
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In Bristol there lived a fair damsel
And she being a beauty most bright
A sailor he loved her fond heartedly
Far dearer than he loved his own life
But when her old father he heard it
He swore that it never would be
I'll you far from your own country
And I'll send that young sailor to sea
O Thomas, o Thomas, cried Nancy
We had vowed that we never would part
She fell on the beach broken hearted
And the tears from her blue eyes did start
He pressed this fair maid to his bossom
As the tears down her cheeks fast did flow
He kissed her cold lips and they parted
And he bid her a loving farewell
A ship reached the port and returning
Like some seabird she danced o'er the foam
While Thomas lay on his soft pillow
Dreamed of Nancy and parents and home
There was lightening and loud peels of thunder
There was lightening flashed over the main
The rocks ripped the good ship asunder
And the crew met a watery grave
To the beach, to the beach Nancy oft had visited
She beheld a most terrible sight
'Twas the corpse of her Thomas they carried
To the place where they oft times had been
Next day there were two loyal lovers
Cut down in the height of their bloom
It was said that they loved one another
And was both buried into one tomb
