I can't believe that 90% of Canadians only know the first 4 lines. We had to sing the entire national anthem at least weekly and sometimes daily depending on the particular teacher's bent in elementary and at every assembly I ever attended for thirteen frigging years.

In fact, I can't even think of the song, without hearing the ubiquitous piano pounding out the extra descending notes at the end of almost every line. We usually sang that part too....we must have sounded like a bunch of raving Bolsheviks.

O Canada!...bum, bum, bum

Of course, we also had to sing God Save the Queen back then too. How times have changed.

I always wondered a bit why true patriot love was only commanded of sons, but then just assumed that daughters weren't supposed to give a shit. I agree with Peter T., if they hadn't started dicking with the rest of the words, perhaps the 90% would sing more than four lines.

This may explain why years ago, my friend Dave and I once sang our own Canadian anthem to Wild Thing.... Canada..I think I love you, but I wanna know for sure!.....of course it might have been the booze too. LOL