Notes

Title
Adieu my lovely Nancy
Singer
Shears, Charles
Notes
G B Gardiner - 'Charles Shears, 85, Salisbury Union [workhouse], August, 1909.

Note 2

Jean Morrison - 'Charles Shears [1825 - 1914] was born at Winterslow, Wiltshire, of a family of woodsmen and labourers. The most celebrated of the family was Lydia Shears, a reputed witch who could turn herself into a hare. She was eventually shot and killed with a silver bullet.'

Note 3

Chris Wildridge - 'The notebook containing the text is missing. The above is from the music manuscript.'

Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2008