Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

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If you look at the sleeve notes for Ballads and Songs you will note that Nic Jones is meticulous in giving credit to the sources he collected his songs from. It is somewhat ironic that his arrangement of Canadee-i-o was 'borrowed' without credit by Bob Dylan.

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  1. Canadee-i-o - 'The Forget Me Not (sometimes Forget-Me-Not) series was an interesting production. Much like Rise Up Singing, a collection of mostly traditional but also much other stuff. No tunes & only very rare attributions, however. Copyright was hard to enforce then. These were "popular" songs and ballads and it was expected that most people knew the tunes. They were cheaply printed and circulated in the 1000s throughout (mainly) northeastern US. Many source singers in turn got their material there! It was in its 1847 edition that Ephraim Braley of Hudson, Maine read "Canadee-i-o" the sea/love song (as per Nic Jones)' (Abby Sale's 'Happy' Archive).
  2. Drowned Lovers
  3. Humpback Whale
  4. Little Pot Stove
  5. Courting Is A Pleasure
  6. Barrack Street
  7. Planxty Davis
  8. Flandyke Shore
  9. Farewell To The Gold