Canada Jim
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Well this song goes in two categories since we lost John to COVID in April.
Before the turn of the century we had a folk club held in the Citizens' Forum at Cobourg's Victoria Hall called Folk At The Forum. One Christmas Hootenanny, my friend Cam asked me to play Christmas In Prison with him. I decided to play slide guitar for the first time in front of an audience. Cam and I practised it with me using an open G tuning and it was sounding pretty OK. The night of the show, we went into the washroom (organic echo) to run over it one more time and Cam informed me that it was easier to sing in D. Instead of refusing, I switched to open D tuning, and it still turned out OK. I realised that I could just move down a string and still be in the same relative tuning. I did it in C here without the slide.
I've wondered about John's simile: "She's sweeter than saccharine at a drug store sale". Why compare your dream girl to artificial sweetener? Maybe he couldn't get maple syrup to fit.
Before the turn of the century we had a folk club held in the Citizens' Forum at Cobourg's Victoria Hall called Folk At The Forum. One Christmas Hootenanny, my friend Cam asked me to play Christmas In Prison with him. I decided to play slide guitar for the first time in front of an audience. Cam and I practised it with me using an open G tuning and it was sounding pretty OK. The night of the show, we went into the washroom (organic echo) to run over it one more time and Cam informed me that it was easier to sing in D. Instead of refusing, I switched to open D tuning, and it still turned out OK. I realised that I could just move down a string and still be in the same relative tuning. I did it in C here without the slide.
I've wondered about John's simile: "She's sweeter than saccharine at a drug store sale". Why compare your dream girl to artificial sweetener? Maybe he couldn't get maple syrup to fit.
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