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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Canadee-i-o</h1>
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  15 <p>Trad./arr. Bob Dylan (<a href="did_dylan_steal_canadee.htm">possibly (but not certainly) influenced by Nic Jones' arr</a>) (<a href="canadee__nic_jones_version.htm">here's a tab of it</a>)<br />
  16 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Good As I Been To You</a> (1992)<br />
  17 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  19 <p>Some open/alternate tuning has been suggested for this one, but I
  20 doubt that. It sounds very much like a standard guitar, tuned down one
  21 whole step (D-G-c-f-a-d').
  22 The playing is sprinkled with hammer-ons and sus4-chords, in such a
  23 free way that it would be sacrilegious to encarcerate it in a fixed
  24 version (meaning I don't have the time or the energy to tab it
  25 out...).
  26 It's been claimed that Dylan stole his arrangement from the English
  27 folk singer Nic Jones. A comparison between the two versions tells me
  28 that Dylan can sleep safely--they don't sound that similar. See the
  29 footnote and see for yourselves.</p>
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  33 <p>[Intro: first two lines of the verse]</p>
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  35            C      G        C        F
  36 Well, it's all of fair and handsome girl,
  37 C                G      C
  38 She's all in her tender years.
  39 C           G           C      F
  40 She fell in love with a sailor boy,
  41      C                  G
  42 It's true she loved him well.
  43 F                C
  44 For to go off to sea with him
  45                       G
  46 Like she did not know how,
  47 C             G        C       F
  48 She longed to see that seaport town
  49 C      F     C
  50 Of Canadee-i-o.
  51
  52 So she bargained with the sailor boy,
  53 All for a piece of gold.
  54 Straightaway then he led her
  55 Down into the hold,
  56 Sayin', &quot;I'll dress you up in sailor's clothes,
  57 Your jacket shall be blue.
  58 You'll see that seaport town
  59 Of Canadee-i-o.
  60
  61 Now, when the other sailors heard the news,
  62 Well, they fell into a rage,
  63 And with all the ship's company
  64 They were willing to engage.
  65 Saying, &quot;We'll tie her hands and feet, my boys,
  66 Overboard we'll throw her.
  67 She'll never see that seaport town
  68 Called Canadee-i-o.
  69
  70 Now, when the captain he heard the news,
  71 Well, he too fell in a rage,
  72 And with the whole ship's company
  73 He was willing to engage,
  74 Sayin', &quot;She'll stay in sailor's clothes,
  75 Her color shall be blue,
  76 She'll see that seaport town
  77 Call Canadee-i-o.
  78
  79 Now, when they come down to Canada
  80 Scarcely 'bout half a year,
  81 She's married this bold captain
  82 Who called her his dear.
  83 She's dressed in silks and satins now,
  84 She cuts a gallant show,
  85 Finest of the ladies
  86 Down Canadee-i-o.
  87
  88 Come, all you fair and tender girls,
  89 Wheresoever you may be,
  90 I'd have you to follow your own true love
  91 Whene'er he goes to sea.
  92 For if the sailors prove false to you,
  93 Well, the captain, he might prove true.
  94 You'll see the honor I have gained
  95 By the wearing of the blue.
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