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True Blue

from Rest You Here by Gavin Atkin

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Canadee-i-o was a memorable folk scene favourite for Nic Jones in 1980. This is a Kent version with a very different tune and mood, but it tells the same tale.

Francis Collinson, who worked for the BBC, collected it from Mr W Newport of Boughton Aluph in Kent in 1955.

Mr Newport learned it from his father, and looking at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, it turns out that in 1952 Mr Newport wrote to Collinson at the BBC after listening to a radio programme about folk songs.

Collinson appears to have called on Mr Newport to collect the tune while on a collecting trip in Kent a few years later. www.vwml.org/record/COL/3/7B

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from Rest You Here, released June 26, 2020

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Gavin Atkin England, UK

Gavin Atkin lives, sings and plays in Kent, where he also sails dinghies and a small yacht, publishes a boating weblog, and runs events and workshops focusing on traditional and old fashioned music.

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