A favorite Song
Set to Music by Richard John Samuel Stevens
Written by William Shakespeare
Origin : https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/066/085
And as I did so there came to us from the drawing room below the sound of a fresh young voice chanting, to the accompaniment of a piano, what exhibited all the symptoms of being an old English folk song. The ear detected a good deal of 'Hey nonny nonny', and all that sort of thing.
The Code of the Woosters. Chapter 5
It was then too late for him to say 'Hey, nonny nonny', even if he had wished to.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Chapter 18
Mr Trout had not yet burst into song with a hey–nonny–nonny and a hot–cha–cha, but when you said that you had said everything.
Bachelor Anonymous. Chapter 11