{"id":16237,"date":"2022-06-12T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=16237"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T09:19:12","slug":"wont-you-come-to-me-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/wont-you-come-to-me-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Won’t you come to me in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Will you come to me in Canada<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1908<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>S Fortescue-Harrison \/ John Neat<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN13634<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Kittee Rayburn<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Pardon, Walter; England : Norfolk; 1978<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Across the broad Atlantic, in Canada's domain,\nA colonist was working for the lass he longed to gain.\nInside his little cabin, he pictured day by day\nThe image of his sweetheart, with longing he would say:\n\nWon't you come, come, come to me in Canada\nIn Canada, in Canada?\nWon't you come, come, come to me in Canada\nFar away across the foam?\nWith the church bells ringing on our wedding day\nWe'll drive away upon the sleigh,\nSo if you'll be my wife, we'll be happy for life\nIn my cosy Canadian home <\/em>\n\nThe girl at home was waiting to be his cherished wife\nTo share his little cabin, and to cling to him through life \nShe knew that he would claim her when with fortune he was blessed \nAnd often she would fancy he was calling from the West: \n\nThe columnist succeeded, the lass became his own \nAnd now the little cabin to a larger one has grown \nAnd as they sit together, beneath the maple tree \nHe tells how he called her long ago across the sea: <\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A song reflecting the pains of emigration which later featured in the repertoire of the great traditional singer Walter Pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was originally written specifically for Kittee Rayburn (aka Kitty or Kitty Rayburn), a serio comic singer, often billed as The Girl in Black and White.<\/em> She toured the country with an act featuring the song – described in 1908 as “the chorus song of the season”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1910 the song was recorded as a  “Vivaphone Singing Picture” an early attempt at producing movies with sound. It involved synchronising a silent film of the singer with sound from a gramophone record. The material I have found doesn’t make it clear who sang on the Vivaphone recording.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
As recorded by Jack Charman in 1908:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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