diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index b60d4d9..4b31682 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2014 - 2020, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+Copyright (c) 2014 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
 
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.
diff --git a/liberty.c b/liberty.c
index 1655bfa..df7b744 100644
--- a/liberty.c
+++ b/liberty.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * liberty.c: the ultimate C unlibrary
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2020, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.
@@ -4412,7 +4412,9 @@ socket_io_try_write (int socket_fd, struct str *wb)
 //   object  = lws '{' entries endobj
 //   endobj  = lws '}'
 //
-//   string  = lws '"' ('\\' escape / ![\\"] char)* '"'
+//   quoted  = lws '"' ('\\' escape / ![\\"] char)* '"'
+//           / lws '`' ![`]* '`'
+//   string  = (quoted)+
 //   char    = [\0-\177]  # or any Unicode codepoint in the UTF-8 encoding
 //   escape  = [\\"abfnrtv] / [xX][0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]? / [0-7][0-7]?[0-7]?
 //
@@ -5039,10 +5041,10 @@ config_tokenizer_escape_sequence
 }
 
 static bool
-config_tokenizer_string
-	(struct config_tokenizer *self, struct str *output, struct error **e)
+config_tokenizer_dq_string (struct config_tokenizer *self, struct str *output,
+	struct error **e)
 {
-	unsigned char c;
+	unsigned char c = config_tokenizer_advance (self);
 	while (self->len)
 	{
 		if ((c = config_tokenizer_advance (self)) == '"')
@@ -5056,6 +5058,44 @@ config_tokenizer_string
 	return false;
 }
 
+static bool
+config_tokenizer_bt_string (struct config_tokenizer *self, struct str *output,
+	struct error **e)
+{
+	unsigned char c = config_tokenizer_advance (self);
+	while (self->len)
+	{
+		if ((c = config_tokenizer_advance (self)) == '`')
+			return true;
+		str_append_c (output, c);
+	}
+	config_tokenizer_error (self, e, "premature end of string");
+	return false;
+}
+
+static bool
+config_tokenizer_string (struct config_tokenizer *self, struct str *output,
+	struct error **e)
+{
+	// Go-like strings, with C/AWK-like automatic concatenation
+	while (self->len)
+	{
+		bool ok = true;
+		if (isspace_ascii (*self->p) && *self->p != '\n')
+			config_tokenizer_advance (self);
+		else if (*self->p == '"')
+			ok = config_tokenizer_dq_string (self, output, e);
+		else if (*self->p == '`')
+			ok = config_tokenizer_bt_string (self, output, e);
+		else
+			break;
+
+		if (!ok)
+			return false;
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 static enum config_token
 config_tokenizer_next (struct config_tokenizer *self, struct error **e)
 {
@@ -5080,7 +5120,7 @@ config_tokenizer_next (struct config_tokenizer *self, struct error **e)
 		return CONFIG_T_ABORT;
 
 	case '"':
-		config_tokenizer_advance (self);
+	case '`':
 		str_reset (&self->string);
 		if (!config_tokenizer_string (self, &self->string, e))
 			return CONFIG_T_ABORT;
diff --git a/tests/liberty.c b/tests/liberty.c
index dc445d8..3d932d5 100644
--- a/tests/liberty.c
+++ b/tests/liberty.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * tests/liberty.c
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2015 - 2016, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static struct config_schema g_config_test[] =
 	  .default_  = "1" },
 	{ .name      = "foobar",
 	  .type      = CONFIG_ITEM_STRING,
-	  .default_  = "\"qux\\x01\"" },
+	  .default_  = "\"qux\\x01`\" \"\"`a`" },
 	{}
 };
 
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ test_config (void)
 		"top.bar", NULL), invalid, NULL));
 	config_item_destroy (invalid);
 
+	hard_assert (!strcmp ("qux\001`a",
+		config_item_get (config.root, "top.foobar", NULL)->value.string.str));
+
 	struct str s = str_make ();
 	config_item_write (config.root, true, &s);
 	struct config_item *parsed = config_item_parse (s.str, s.len, false, NULL);