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Thread #112655 Message #2386761
Posted By: GUEST
11-Jul-08 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From one version of the Irish song, The Green Fields of America (place names are sometimes in a different order in the verse):
There's rum in Toronto at a shilling a bottle There's ale in New Brunswick at a penny a glass There's wine in that fine town they call Montreal, boys And the devil be with us, if we don't take a glass
And this one is from Newfoundland. See the link for the whole version, which mentions some additional places, but here's the first verse: