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Angeline Publicover sailed from her home in West Dublin, Nova Scotia on December 11th, 1868, to purchase her wedding dress in Halifax. The entire journey, there and back, was to take only three days. Due to fate, however, their ship was lost in the Bahamas, and Angeline and the whole ship’s company, although saved by the crew of the “Providence” were not to return home until March 17th, 1869.

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Angeline


Young Angeline and her true love talked late one winter’s eve
Their banns announced, the date was set, they’d marry in the spring
A wedding day like none before blazed in her eyes like fire
A wedding dress from Halifax, it was her one desire

Her love opposed his Angeline’s leaving at dawn’s light
Naught would she hear, her mind was set, her wedding dress to buy
Three days from hence she would return never more to stray
But while she slept his parting words upon her mind did play

CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me
You have no need, my love, to risk your life so needlessly
It’s you I want, my heart’s desire, to hold you close each night
Don’t sail away, dear Angeline, all for your dress o’ white

At dawn’s first light on Friday morn, the ship it did set sail
But late that night off Sambro light they ran into a gale
Three days and nights, no sail, no lights, they ran her out to sea
And Angeline, young Angeline, sailed farther from her dreams

Near three weeks out the ship was lost when heavy seas ran high
But providence proved both strong and kind for “Providence” lay by
Young Angeline and crew were saved but now were London bound
Each passing night brought dreams of home and her true love to mind

CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me...

Three months from when she first set sail Angeline returned
She vowed no more to go to sea her wanderlust consumed
No dress in hand she made for home, there she arrived to find
Her own true love had ventured forth, his true love for to find

At each day’s end Angeline stares longingly to sea
Horizon’s edge, the billowed sails, that stole her love away
To search the whole world over, his true love for to find
And when she lays her head to rest, these words come to her mind

CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me...

Young Angeline and her true love talked late one winter’s eve….

© Dan McKinnon

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from Fields of Dreams and Glory, released June 23, 2005

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Dan McKinnon Halifax, Nova Scotia

Blessed with a glorious baritone voice, a graceful mastery on guitar, and a hearty laugh that delights any room, Dan McKinnon has carved out his own unique, musical path. From early beginnings in the coffee houses, pubs and bars of Atlantic Canada, to yearly tours throughout the UK, Dan’s performances reveal an enduring respect for the past, tempered by a profound attachment to the present. ... more

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