Origins: Something to Sing About (Oscar Brand)

Subject: RE: Something to sing about
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Sep 99 - 04:47 AM

Anybody got a tune to post?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyrics needed: This Land of Ours
From: Len Wallace
Date: 22 Sep 99 - 12:51 AM

Hi Friends,

I'd like to get the lyrics to Oscar Brandt's "This Land of Ours". Trying to remember the lyrics I sang in elemntary school choir and got as far as "From the Vancouver Island to Alberta highlands, cross the prairies, the lakes to Ontario's towers..."

Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT (Oscar Brand)
From: Ciaran
Date: 15 Oct 98 - 09:04 AM

Try this...from www.achilles.net/~cco/songs/s-some.htm

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
(Oscar Brand)

I have walked cross the sand
On the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
Lazed on the ridge of the Mirimichi,
Seen the waves tear and roar
At the stone coast of Labrador
Watched them roll back to the great northern sea.

CHORUS: From the Vancouver Island
To the Alberta highland,
Cross the Prairie, the Lakes to Ontario's towers,
From the sound of Mount Royal's chimes
Out to the Maritimes,
Something to sing about, this land of ours.

I have welcomed the dawn
From the fields of Saskatchewan,
Followed the sun to the Vancouver shore,
Watched it climb shiny new
Up the snow peaks of Caribou,
Up to the clouds where the wild Rockies roar. CHORUS

I have heard the wild wind sing,
The places that I have been,
Bay Bull and Red Deer and Strait of Belle Isle,
Names like Grand Mere and Silverthrone,
Moosejaw and Marrowbone
Trails of the pioneer, named with a smile. CHORUS

I have wandered my way
To the wild wood of Hudson Bay,
Treated my toes to Quebec's morning dew,
Where the sweet summer breeze
Kissed the leaves of the maple trees,
Sharing this song that I'm singing to you. CHORUS

Yes, there's something to sing about,
Tune up a string about,
Call out in chorus or quietly hum,
Of a land that's still young,
With a balled that's still unsung,
Telling the promise of great things to come. CHORUS

TRO ©credit 1963 & 1964, Hollis Music Inc. New York, N.Y.

Subject: Somthing to sing about about...words please
From: ML
Date: 14 Oct 98 - 09:20 PM

I am trying to get all the verses to Something to sing about - great Canadian folk song - for my 'intergenerational choir'. Might as well make them sing my favourites!!

one verse is: I have welcomed the dawn in? the fields of Saskatchewan, Followed the sun to Quebec's northern shore, Watched it rise shiny new on? the snow peaks of Caribou, down (up?) to the ..... where the wild Rockies soar.

Chorus: From the Vancouver Island to the Alberta Highlands Cross the prairies the lakes to Ontario's towers, From the sound of Mount Royal's chimes,(clap) Out to the Maritimes,(clap) Somthing to sing about, this land of ours.

Last verse: Yes, it's something to sing about, tune up a string about Call out in chorus or quietly hum, For a land that's still young and a ballad that's still? unsung, Something to sing about, this land of ours.

My problem is that our family writes a new verse every time we go on a trip and we have all lost the original. Thanks ML

Subject: RE: Something to sing about
From: Gene
Date: 26 Jun 97 - 06:06 PM

Lyrics and arrangement(s) can also be found at the following: (don't try to type this-use copy function)

http://xp5.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=8325793&search=thread&threaded=1&server=db95q23&CONTEXT=867362667.1467&HIT_CONTEXT=867361145.453&HIT_NUM=98&hitnum=0&NTL=1

Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT (Oscar Brand)
From: Bob Landry
Date: 26 Jun 97 - 05:35 PM

Ted: her you go

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
(Oscar Brand)

I have walked cross the sand on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
Lazed on the ridge of the Miramichi.
Seen the waves tear and roar on the stone coast of Labrador,
Watched them roll back to the Great Northern Sea.

CHORUS
From the Vancouver Island to the Alberta highland,
Cross the prairie, the lakes to Ontario's towers.
From the sound of Mount Royal's chimes out to the Maritimes,
Something to Sing About, this land of ours.

I have welcomed the dawn from the fields of Saskatchewan,
Followed the sun to the Vancouver shore.
Watched it climb shiny new up the snow peaks of Caribou,
Up to the clouds where the wild Rockies soar.

CHORUS

I have heard the wild wind find the places that I have been,
Bay Bull and Red Deer and Strait of Belle Isle.
Names like Grand-Mere and Silverthorne, Moose Jaw and Marrowbone,
Trails of the pioneer, named with a smile.

CHORUS

I have wandered my way to the wild wood of Hudson Bay,
Treated my toes to Quebec's morning dew.
Where the sweet summer breeze kissed the leaves of the maple trees,
Sharing this song that I'm singing to you.

CHORUS

Yes, there's Something To Sing About, tune up a string about,
Call out in chorus or quietly hum,
Of a land that's still young with a ballad that's still unsung,
Telling the promise of great things to come.

CHORUS

Subject: Something to sing about, lyrics?
From:
Date: 26 Jun 97 - 02:57 PM

Looking for the Lryics to an Oscar Brand song, written as a Canadian reponse to This Land is Your Land.

Chorus is; From the Vancouver islands to the Alberta highlands cross the praries, the lakes to Ontario's shores from the sound of Mount Royal's chimes,down to the maritimes something to sing about, this land of hours

If anybody has the verses, would appreciate them

Ted