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When her love goes to sea, a lady dresses as a sailor and joins (his or another's) ship's crew. When she is discovered, (the crew/her lover) determine to drown her. The captain saves her and they marry. Based on similarity of title, some connect this song with " Canaday-I-O, Michigan-I-O, Colley's Run I-O ". There is no connection in plot, however, and any common lyrics are probably the result of Cross-fertilization . The Scottish song " Caledonia " is quite different in detail — so much so that it is separate from the "Canada-I-O" texts in the Roud Folk Song Index ("Canaday-I-O" is #309; "Caledonia" is #5543). The plot, however, is too close for scholars to distinguish. BROADSIDES
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REFERENCES # Sam Henry, ''Sam Henry's Songs of the People'' (1990), H162, pp. 333-334, "Canada {Link without Title} Hi! Ho!" (1 text, 1 tune) # John Ord, ''Bothy Songs and Ballads'' (1930; Reprint edition with introduction by Alexander Fenton printed 1995), pp. 117-118, "Caledonia" (1 text) # MacEdward Leach, ''Folk Ballads & Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast'' (1965), 90, "Canadee-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune) # Maud Karpeles, ''Folk Songs from Newfoundland'' (1970), 48, "Wearing of the Blue" (1 text, 1 tune) # Helen Creighton, ''Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick'' (1971), 109, "She Bargained with a Captain" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
# Roud Folk Song Index #309 and 5543 |
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