Step It Out Nancy chords by Holly Near

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse:
  DmDm                 C majorC
Near Cheyenne in Wyoming, there's a maiden fine an fair
  A minorAm                 Bb majorBb
Her eyes shine like diamonds, she had long and golden hair
  DmDm                   C majorC
When the cattleman came riding, he came to her father's door
   A minorAm             Bb majorBb
Mounted on a milkwhite pony, he came at the stroke of four

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse 2:
     DmDm             C majorC
I have come to court your daughter, Nancy of the golden hair
   A minorAm            Bb majorBb
I have wealth and I have money, I have goods beyond compare
     DmDm              C majorC
I will buy her silks and satins and a gold ring for her hand
   A minorAm                    Bb majorBb
I will buy my love a mansion, she'll have servants to command

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse 3:
     DmDm                 C majorC
Can't you see I love a cowboy, and I promised him my hand
     A minorAm                Bb majorBb
I don't want your house and money, I don't want your good and land.
     DmDm                C majorC
Nancy's father spoke up sharply: You will do as you are told,
     A minorAm                      Bb majorBb
You'll be married on the Sunday, you will wear the ring of gold

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse 4:
      DmDm              C majorC
The cattleman spoke with fury, said you will not have that man
     A minorAm                 Bb majorBb
And he rode from town in anger with his rifle in his hand
     DmDm            C majorC
He came back from Colorado, on his pony was a sack
     A minorAm                    Bb majorBb
Deep red with the blod of the cowboy, slung across his back

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse 5:
      DmDm                 C majorC
Pretty Nancy cried in anguish, she wept and tore her hair
     A minorAm                Bb majorBb
She slipped into her father's room and found a pistol lying there
     DmDm                C majorC
On the sunday came the wedding the toown's folk gathered at noon
     A minorAm                      Bb majorBb
They saw Nancy pull the pistol and shoot down that wealthy groom

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

Verse 6:
      DmDm                 C majorC
Nancy Said I am not sorry, when the jury heard the tale
     A minorAm                Bb majorBb
Though he rots beneath the ground and I shall rot in jail
     DmDm                C majorC
There in the crowded courtroom, twelve good men took their stand
     A minorAm                      Bb majorBb
Said we will not hold you, Nancy, for killing that wealthy man

Chorus:
      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man

      DmDm
So step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 C majorC
Step it out, Nancy, if you can
 A minorAm
Step it out, Nancy, pretty darling
 Bb majorBb
Show your legs to the wealthy man