Annotation:Canny Newcastle

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 CANNY NEWCASTLE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Heslop explains: ''An embodiment of all that is kindly, good, and gentle. The highest compliment that can be paid to any person is to say that he or she is canny. As "home" expresses the English love of the fireside, so in Tyneside and Northumberland does canny express every home virtue. All that is good and loveable in man or woman is covered by the expression "Eh, what a canny body !" A child appealing for help or protection always addresses his elder as canny man "Please. canny man, gi's a lift i' yor cairt." "0, canny man 0 show me the way to Wallington." What Northumberland bairn but has appealed, when punishment impended, "Please canny man, it wasn't me !" The fishwife who wishes to compliment her customer says, "Noo, canny-hinny, see what vor buyin'.  Source for notated version:   Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 116.  Recorded sources'':

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