Songs That Mention Canadian Places

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:49 AM

Peter Emberley

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:44 AM

"Song For The Mira"

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:44 AM

Song for the Mira is the title. Can't sing that one enough.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:39 AM

GUESThilo: No, I believe it's the same song. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: GUEST,hilo
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:35 AM

is that a different song from" out on the Mira" ?

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:32 AM

"Marion Bridge": one of the most beautiful songs ever penned.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: GUEST,Michele Callaghan
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:17 AM

How about Fundy Bay, sung by Geoff Kaufmann? It is a beautiful song.

Michele C.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 09:02 AM

Four Strong Winds, Bud The Spud, Alberta Bound, Sudbury Saturday Night, Brave Wolf, Escarpment Blues, Song For Sharon.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: bankley
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:56 AM

"They hop a late Greyhound in Red Deer going southbound
that rolls through the small towns like fast 'voulez-vous'
He's teaching her new sounds, her English is broken
It's not often spoken back in Riviere de Loup..

she said

'I hope not to catch you on une fille you find finer
   hespecially a minor, not growed-up like me'...
As they slid through Saskatchewan, west of Regina
Ten days before Christmas, they were unwashed and free"

from 'White coated Coulees'.. a song about young buskers north of 49.

(one of mine)

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Deeps
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:52 AM

The Toronto Song
Last Saskatchewan Pirate

Both by the Arrogant Worms

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: quokka
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:48 AM

Thanks for checking that out, Beer, I'm Australian and confess I don't know a lot about Canadian place-names. There is another song that mentions Halifax by an Australian folk-rock band Weddings Parties Anything -'Knockbacks in Halifax'
Cheers,
Quokka

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: bobad
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:36 AM

HughM, read about the Franklin expedition

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:34 AM

Have confirmed that Barett's Privateers song which mention's Halifax and Sherbrooke is in fact the places in Nova Scotia.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:33 AM

Stan Rogers' North-West Passage song refers to "the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea". I believe Franklin is a district of north-west Canada. Is the "hand of Franklin" something to do with this?

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: bobad
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:30 AM

Blue Canadian Rockies

In the blue Canadian rockies
Spring is silent through the trees
And the golden poppies are blooming
round the banks of Lake Louise

Now, oh, how my lonely heart is aching tonight
For that girl I left behind
And, oh, what Id give if I could be there tonight
With the sweetheart who's waitin' for me

In the blue Canadian rockies
Spring is silent through the trees
And the golden poppies are blooming
round the banks of Lake Louise

Across the sea they call me
And on and on a love so true
For the blue Canadian rockies
And the one I love to see
And the one I love to see

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:30 AM

My thanks to all those who have added songs and comments to this thread.

Keep'em coming!

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:28 AM

Here's an YouTube clip of an instrumental version of I'se The Bye:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj3JXIAzM5Q

Live at Erins pub From Rigs Jigs And Songs From The Heart mid 1980's
Dermot O'Reilly.....'I'se The B'y

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And here's a YouTube clip of Dick Nolan singing I'se The B'y:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDalYDZ500&feature=related

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: oldhippie
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:17 AM

David Rovics - "I wish I was in Vancouver, at the Cannabis Cafe....."

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: GUEST,hilo
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:16 AM

Farewell To Nava Scotia, She's Called Nova Scotia, Caledonia, Springhill Mine Disaster, Barretts' Privateers, The Rawdon Hills, Bluenose In the Sun, Out On The Mira,Orangedale Whistle, Fogartys' Cove, Moose River Mine,We Are An Island, Cape Breton Lullaby,Gillis Mountain, You're So Vain, Citadel Hill, Cape Breton Lullabye...........and we haven't left Nova Scotia!

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:13 AM

Here's a Mudcat thread about a song that mentions some Canadian place names:

thread.cfm?threadid=72423
Lyr Req: Sally Gribble ! (I'se The B'y)

Here's the words found in that thread [excerpted from a post by
Turlough on 13 Aug 04:

I'se The B'y

I'se The B'y that builds the boat and
I'se The B'y that sails her and
I'se The B'y that catches the fish and
Brings 'em home to Liza

Chorus:
Hip-yer-partner Sally Tibbo
Hip-yer-partner Sally Brown
Fogo, Twillingate, Morton's Harbour,
All around the circle

Sods and rinds to cover your flake,
Cake and tea for supper
Cod fish in the spring of the year,
Fried in maggoty butter

Chorus

I don't want your maggoty fish
They're no good for winter
Well I can buy as good as that,
Way down in Bonavista!

Chorus

I took Liza to a dance,
As fast as she can travel,
And every step that she could take,
Was up to her knees in gravel

Chorus

Susan White she's outta sight,
Her petticoat wants a border,
Well old Sam Oliver in the dark,
He kissed her in the corner!

Chorus

I'se The B'y that builds the boat and
I'se The B'y that sails her and
I'se The B'y that catches the fish and
Brings 'em home to Liza

Chorus

-snip-

I'm assuming Fogo, Twillingate, Morton's Harbour are places in Canada. [??]

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:02 AM

Then there's the song "Peace In The Valley". Maybe that song counts because there's a river in Alberta, Canada named "Peace River" and there's also a town in Alberta named "Peace River."

No? Songs with the word "Peace" in them don't count in this thread?

Oh, alright. Spoils sport.

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But just because...here's some information about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_(Canada) anyway.

"The Peace River (French: rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows through northern Alberta...

Alexander Mackenzie travelled up the river to the Continental Divide.[1] Mackenzie referred to the river as "Unjegah", from a native word meaning "large river". The Peace River, or Unchaga or Unjaja, was named after Peace Point near Lake Athabasca, where the Treaty of the Peace came authorized with the smoking of a peace pipe. The treaty ended the decades of hostilities between the Beaver (Athapascan branch) and the Cree in which the Cree dominated the Beaver until a smallpox epidemic in 1781 decimated the Cree. The treaty made the Beaver stay north of the river and the Cree south...

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And did you know that there's a Slave River in Canada?

"The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from Lake Athabasca in northeastern Alberta and empties into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

This river's name is thought to come from the Athabaskan "Deh Gah Got'ine", the name for the Slavey group of the Dene First Nations.[1] The Chipewyan had displaced other native people from this region".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_River

-snip-

But that's also a whole 'nuther subject.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 08:00 AM

Helpless, Neil Young.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:59 AM

Runnin' back to Saskatoon, The Guess Who.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:57 AM

There has to be a lot of Stompin' Tom Connors songs...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Terry McDonald
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:51 AM

There's Lenny Gallant's 'Nelly J. Banks' which starts:
We left St Pierre in the month of May
Prince Edward Island Bound....

and includes a couple of refences to places on PEI.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:50 AM

"Alberta let your hair hang low
I saw her first on an april morn'
As she walked through the mist in a field of hay
Her hair lit the world with its golden glow
And the smile on her face burned my heart away" *
-snip-

Oh.. Sorry, that song is talking about a woman named "Alberta" and not the Canadian province named "Alberta":

"Alberta (IPA: /ælˈbɝtə/) is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.

Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, Northwest Territories to the north, and by the U.S. state of Montana to the south. Alberta is one of three provinces and territories (the others being New Brunswick and Yukon) to border only a single U.S. state. It is also one of two provinces that are land-locked (the other being Saskatchewan)".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta

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*from http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/watson-doc/alberta-1518.html

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: irishenglish
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:47 AM

A variant of Donkey Riding has it being around Cape Horn. Azizi, you will hear lots of Canadian place names in artists like Stan Rogers, Great Big Sea, and lots more. GBS constantly name drop Newfoundland locales-Petty Harbor, Merasheen,Fortune Bay. You also have a song done by many people over the years I believe, Farewell To Nova Scotia.

By the way, in terms of Atlantic Canada, I know a lot from Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland. Does anyone know of anything particularly native to Prince Edward Island? (Besides Anne Of Green Gables)

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:33 AM

In case you didn't get it, not all the place names in that "Donkey Riding" song are from Canada.

"Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the area created by the Cardiff Barrage in South Cardiff, Wales. The regeneration of Cardiff Bay is now widely regarded as one of the most successful regeneration projects in the UK"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Bay

-snip-


"Timbuktu (Archaic English: Timbuctoo; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It is home to the prestigious Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu

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But what horn are they talkin 'bout that you gotta go around?
??

Maybe those words refer to "Cape Horn" [at the] Southern extremity of South America. Located on Horn Island in the southern Tierra del Fuego archipelago, it projects south into Drake Passage. It was named Hoorn for the birthplace of Dutch navigator Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616. Navigation of the rough waters around the cape is hazardous, and the climate is windy and cold year-round".
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-367360.html

Hmm. Maybe this thread can be helpful for geographically challenged people like me.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:29 AM

Not sure that Stan was referring to Halifax Nova Scotia in that song. Would have to check.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: quokka
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:26 AM

Barett's Privateers (Stan Rogers)...
"I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers"
Cheers,
Quokka

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:25 AM

Think I'll go out to Alberta,
weather's good there in the fall
Got some friends that I can go to workin' for...


Four Strong Winds

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:17 AM

Movin right along...back to the songs, here's one from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5170/cffolk.html, a Girl Guide page. This was listed on the folk songs page:


Donkey Riding

Chorus: Hey ho, away we go
Donkey riding, donkey riding
Hey ho, away we go
Riding on a donkey

Were you ever in Quebec?
Stowing timber on the deck
Where there's a king with a golden crown
Riding on a donkey

Were you ever round the horn?
Where it's always fine and warm
See the lion and the unicorn
Riding on a donkey

Were you ever in Cardiff Bay?
Where the folks all shout, "Hurray!"
Here comes John with his three months pay
Riding on a donkey

Were you ever in Timbucktoo?
Where the Girl Guides dress in blue
Where they come to welcome you
Riding on a donkey

Were you ever in Ottawa,
Strangest place I ever saw,
Where the mounties keep the law
Riding on a donkey?

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:14 AM

Okay. Now I know that Quebec City is the capital of Quebec.

But New York City isn't the capital of New York state. The capital of New York state is...um...um-Wait a minute.. Yeah, it's Albany.

{Albany?!}

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Btw, I now know that Montreal is a city in Quebec which means it's in Canada, and Toronto is a city in Ontario, and Ontario is a province in Canada which means that Toronto is a city in Canada.

[I confess that I used to think that Montreal, Toronto, and Ontario were all US cities.}

Then there's Vancouver, Canada and Vancouver, USA.

So do you blame me for being confused?

You do?

Oh.

Okay. I'll try to be more geographically correct.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:02 AM

What?! What's that you say?

Quebec is a province and a city?!

Why, who ever heard of such a thing? I mean us UnitedStaters would never do anything so confusing as that.

What?? You say there's New York, New York?

Oh.

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Here's a link to Quebec's Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec

It comes with a map so folks like me can see where that province is located.

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Mr Happy
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 07:01 AM

Farewell to Nova Scotia

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3MAaQLSSI

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Mr Happy
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:58 AM

Canadian Pacific?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3azZYlhrLiw

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:55 AM

Movin' right along in search of good times and good news,
With good friends, you can't lose,
This could become a habit.
Opportunity knocked once, let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it.
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.

Movin' right along, foot-loose and fancy free.
Gettin' there is half the fun; come share it with me.
Movin' right along (doog-a-doon, doog-a-doon)
We'll learn to share the load.
We don't need a map to keep this show on the road.

Movin' right along we found a life on the highway,
And your way is my way, so trust my navigation.
California here we come, that pie-in-the-sky land.
Palm trees and warm sand, though sadly we just left Rhode Island.

Movin' right along, hey, L.A., where've you gone?
Send someone to fetch us, we're in Saskatchewan.
Movin' right along (doog-a-doon, doog-a-doon)
You take it, you know best.
Hey, I've never seen the sun come up in the West.

Movin' right along, we're truly birds of a feather,
We're in this together, and you know where you're goin'.
Movie stars with flashy cars and life with the top down.
We're stormin' the big town.
Yeah! Storm is right, should it be snowin'?

Movin' right along, do I see signs of men?
Yeah, "welcome" on the same post that says "come back again."
Movin' right along, foot-loose and fancy free.
You're ready for the big time, is it ready for me?

Movin' right along
Movin' right along

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/muppets-movin-right-along-lyrics.html

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Link to a YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w316aA8ed8
The Muppet Movie - Movin' Right Along

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Info from http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Movin'_Right_Along :

Music by   Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams
Date   1979
Source   The Muppet Movie

Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:55 AM

Aziza,
Quebec is a province but it is also a city, and it's capital. Have fun.
Beer
(adrien)

Subject: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:47 AM

What songs do you know that mention geographical places in Canada?*

I can think of a few, but I'm sure that folks here know more.

Join me in a light hearted, or heavy duty [whichever you prefer] song journey to Canada. Poems & rhymes can also be included in this thread, if you know any.

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*This thread is dedicated to all geographically challenged, United States centric people-like me-who thought that "Quebec" and "Ontario" were cities, and who didn't know that "states" in Canada are called "provinces". Not that this thread will help much with that...

I'm sorry, Mudcat Canadian-you know who you are-for my recent geographical mistake.

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Thanks, in advance for your participation in this thread!

Enjoy!!