A Google search for Ray Griff took me to his website, and a 39-second mp3 of part of Canadian Pacific, enough to get part of the lyrics. A further Google search on "carry me three thousand miles" brought up just one set of the lyrics: Click here. The lyrics there are not all correct, but if anyone is familiar enough with them, perhaps other Mudcatters can correct the mistakes? These are the words per that site (I've corrected a couple of obviously wrong words in the chorus):

CANADIAN PACIFIC

I rodeo a oceanliner to Newfoundland
Where I made a little mint my and mine
When I got my fill I went to Nova Scotia
And I fished the salty waters for a time
I'll sing through Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
I could see the rocks and flips of salt and stone
Listening to the seagulls calling to each other
Made me miss my darlin and my distant home

Chorus:
Canadian Pacific
Carry me three thousand miles
Through the valleys and the forest
To the sunshine of her smile
Cross the plains and rugged mountains
Keep this wandering boy from harm
Canadian Pacific
Take me to my baby's arms

The Atlantic disappeared on the horizon
And wheat beckley waving for me down the track
For a while I drove a truck to keep from starvin
In Ontario I was a lumberjack
Manitoba and Saskatchewan and followed
Where the wheat fields and the old Red River flowed
In the quiet hours you'll whisk along the prairie
Touched my heart and set my memories aglow

I can feel the near and his awful warm sweet kisses
When you roll into our bird a westward bound
I worked on a oil rig to make some money
For a ticket to the sweetest girl around
Pushin on past Lake Louise in all its splendour
Where the trees and Rockies touch the sky above
I got to British Columbia and heaven
On your tracks I made it back to my true love

There's no attribution to songwriter. The song is, though, the title track of George Hamilton IV's 1969 album "Canadian Pacific". I couldn't find any lyrics by searching under either "Canadian Pacific" or "George Hamilton IV" - thousands of entries. Can anyone do the honours with correcting the above?

Joan