{"id":26150,"date":"2025-02-13T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=26150"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:46:33","slug":"lass-that-leeves-next-door","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/lass-that-leeves-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Lass that leeves next door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Nanny that lives next door <\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>c1866<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Joe Wilson<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN6137<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Joe Wilson<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Unknown singer: Scotland; 1906
Willie Mathieson; Scotland Aberdeenshire; 1952
Tommy McCabe; Ireland County Monaghan; 1968<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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THE LASS THAT LEEVES NEXT DOOR. 
TUNE: \u201cJOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME\"<\/em>

Aw like the lass that leeves next door, 
They call her Nan
Aw've often thowt the syem before, 
She wants a man,
Ay an' Aw's the lad that wants a lass, 
An\u2019 Aw think the time'll cum te pass 
When ye'll find Aw\u2019s the lad for Nanny next door

For she teuk me heart when sittin' a' knitten' 
The time that Aw was smokin' an' spittin', 
An' ivvor since then the time it\u2019s been flittin,
Thro\u2019 Nanny that leeves next door. <\/em>

Aw'll nivvor forget the neet we met\u2014 
One Tuesday neet\u2014 
She was walkin\u2019 oot wi\u2019 me sister Bet 
Alang the street. 
An\u2019 Aw kind o\u2019 thowt \u2014 as she met me eye \u2014 
She wes just the yen for a chep that\u2019s shy: 
An\u2019 Aw seun myed it reet 
Wi\u2019  Nanny that leeves next door. 

She kept us up se weel i\u2019 talk 
Aw just sayd \u2014 \u201cYis\u201d 
Or \u201cNo\u201d \u2014 the time we had the walk, 
So ye may guess 
That Aw set hor hyem an\u2019 myed luv on the way; 
But the neet wes nowt te the varry next day 
When Aw clapt ma eyes on hor 
Knittin\u2019 beside the door. 

She leukt at me wiv a pleesin\u2019 smile, 
Aw leukt at hor; 
An\u2019 puff\u2019d me baccy aa'll the while 
Aside the door. 
Aw tell'd hor then whaat myed us sad 
An\u2019 Aw axed hor wad she hev me for a lad; 
Man Aw stud like a feul, throo 
Nanny that leeves next door. 

\u201cThor's plenty lads to get maw pet,\u201d 
Ses she, te me: 
But a man\u2019s not nigh se easy te get 
Indeed,\u201d ses she. 
Ses Aw, an\u2019 Aw laffed as Aw telt me plan\u2014 
\u201cAw'll forst be yor lad an\u2019 then yor man.\u201d 
Ay, an ivvor since then 
Aw\u2019ve follow\u2019d the lass next door.
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a Tyneside Music Hall song from the 1860s, written and performed by the star of the early Tyneside Halls\u00a0Joe Wilson<\/a>. Like many local Music Hall songs of this period, it was sung to a well known earlier tune, in this case When Johnny comes marching home<\/em>\u00a0(RN6673)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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