Tex Williams – The Night Miss Nancy Ann’s Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down

Tex Williams The Night Miss Nancy Ann’s 2021

Now, Miss Nancy ran a boarding house, with a faded sign that read

“Single rooms for single girls, no men allowed,” it said

The rumor had it that if a gentleman was willing to pay a fee

He could always go down to Nancy Ann’s

For some feminine company

Now, one night in June, in the billiard room

I was chalking up with a friend

He was set to break when through the door old Leo James ran in

“There,s a fire that just broke out,” he yelled

“And it’s down at Nancy Ann’s!”

So, we dropped our cue sticks on the floor and down the street we ran

Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick

Not a single life was lost

And the reason for the blaze was never found

But it long will be remembered in our local history

As the fire that nearly scandalized the town

The night Miss Nancy Ann’s hotel for single girls burned down

When we got to the place the front

Was ablaze and so was the second floor

So we crossed the track and went around in the back

And stopped at the alley door

We was catching our breath when the door flew open

And knocked poor Leo flat

And out through the smoke ran Mayor Will

Wearing nothing but a black silk hat

And right behind him with his shirt

Tail on fire came our local chief of police

Then the Banker Jones with a

Redheaded girl he’d always said was his niece

Then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself, helping someone out of the fire

Her arm around the red bald head of Old Judge McIntyre

A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff, and one state congressman

A county physician

The city mortician, out through the flames they ran

A grand parade of girls and gals and half-clad gentlemen

Out through the heat and smoke

That reeked of French perfume and gin

Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick

Not a single life was lost

And the reason for the blaze was never found

But it long will be remembered in our local history

As the fire that nearly scandalized the town

The night Miss Nancy Ann’s hotel for single girls burned down

Everybody was out of the girls hotel by the time the roof caved in

And we were heading back to the

Billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend

He said, “I believe that the funniest show I’ve ever seen in town

The so-called elite caught out in the street

With their pompous purity down!”

Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick

Not a single life was lost

And the reason for the blaze was never found

But it long will be remembered in our local history

As the fire that nearly scandalized the town

The night Miss Nancy Ann’s hotel for single girls burned down