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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:

Harbour Grace


Harbour Grace is a very nice place
And so is the Bay of Islands,
So we give three cheers for Carbonear
When the boys come home from swilin'.