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Sauve par la Sonnerie / Kybald Street

from Art Gecko by Geckoes

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The first tune is a Gascon farandole which we learned from L.E.McCullough’s LP “Feadanista”. The words which follow are - as far as we know - a translation of a traditional French song. Caroline used to sing this
some years ago with the harmony group Gayglebrook Cottage.

Kybald Street is an alleyway which runs off Magpie Lane, which in turn runs off Oxford’s High Street. In December 1789 the German-born violinist and composer John Baptist Malchair heard a man whistling a tune in Magpie Lane. Malchair memorised the tune, went home and “wrote it down directly”. Some two hundred years later, Dave Parry came across this tune, christened it Magpie Lane, and taught it to Andy Turner. Having done this, and for reasons best known to himself, Dave then rewrote the rune in a completely different time signature, and called it Kybald Street. Confused? Not half as much as Andy was, but it serves him right for trying to be in two bands at once.

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from Art Gecko, released June 1, 1995
Trad. arr. Geckoes

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