This song is about teenage female rebellion
It is a Father upset by his daughters behaviour
lyrics
Nancy
Nancy, I thought that you meant it
I have wasted my hope, Lord I wish I'd never been born
The truth is I am utterly choked, debauched and lost, and vexed as a cat
How can you act so numb, blinkered and huffed
And as cold as the mire
Nancy, I thought that you meant it
I have wasted my hope, Lord I wish I'd never been born
I have raised you since you were a little girl
Now you leave me lost, breathless and grey
And granted, I'll give you up
Lifeless and chopped, and cold as the mire
Nancy, how can you love, when you spit in my face
My wayfaring child
Nancy, I thought that you meant it
I have wasted my hope, Lord I wish I'd never been born
credits
from Gladsome Humour & Blue,
released April 4, 1988
Written by Martin George Stephenson: 1986
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An essential listening experience; quintessentially English, sounds of the countryside, overlapping with ambient piano and woodwind instrumentation. shenzhenbrit
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
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John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP.