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Thread #169254   Message #4216087
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
28-Jan-25 - 01:21 AM
Thread Name: Any January Songs?
Subject: RE: Any January Songs?
January 20, 2025 The White House Executive Order; The Secretary of the Interior shall rename as the “Gulf of America” the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.

From GREAT SPECKLED BIRD (1970); "Calgary" (Ian Tyson / Sylvia Tyson)

Drive me to the airport, 'cause my baby's waiting
Up north in Calgary the ice is breaking
Color that jet plane going, color me gone

Down on the Gulf of Mexico with the sunlight shifting
I was playing cards and losing while the blizzards drifting
In Calgary she's waiting all alone, all alone

It's one twenty-eight one way
Oh you know I'll pay you back someday

Drive me to the airport, you know my baby's waiting
Way up north in Calgary the ice will soon be breaking
Color that jet plane going and color me gone

Ian and Sylvia, of course, came from Canada and, like other Canadians, could come up with dramatic descriptions of winter. I can't imagine anyone changing the words!


CALGARY  - Ian Tyson / Sylvia Tyson (first verse recording at 0.18 on Youtube video       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmf6dGlFJ3E
"Interior Department Advances Restoration of Historic Names Honoring American Greatness” from U.S. Department of the Interior    https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-advances-restoration-historic-names-honoring-american-greatness#:~:text=As