Hank Thompson The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down Lyrics

Now Miss Nancy Ann ran a boardin' house with a
faded sing that read Single Rooms For Single Girls
No Men Allowed it said But rumor had it that a
gentleman with a yen for love for a fee Could
always go to Nancy Ann's for some feminine company
Well one night in June in the Billiard Room was I
chalking up with a friend He was set to break when
the door burst open and Leo James rushed in He
yelled there's a fire that's just broke out and
it's down at Nancy Ann's So we dropped our cues on
the poolroom 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
fairly scandalized the town The night Miss Nancy
Ann's Hotel For Single Girls burned down

When we got to the place the front was a blaze and
so was the second floor So we cut around the side
and up the alley and stopped aside the back door
We were catching our breath when the door flew
open and knocked poor Leo flat And out through the
smoke ran Mayor Wills wearin' nothing but a black
silk hat And right behind him with his shirt tail
afire came the local chief of police And banker
Jones with the red-haired girl he always said was
his niece And then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself
helping someone else out of the fire Her arm
around the red bald head of old Judge McEntire A
deacon a dentist a deputy sheriff and one state
congressman The county physician the city
mortician out through the flames they ran The
grand parade of girls in gowns and hat claid
gentlemen Through the thick gray smoke that
certainly smelled like french perfume and gin
Though the flames were hot...

Now everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the
time the roof caved in We were headin' back to the
billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend He said
I believe that's 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...