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11 Jul 08 - 06:47 AM (#2386413) Subject: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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. ** *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. ** Thanks, in advance for your participation in this thread! Enjoy!! |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:55 AM (#2386419) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Aziza, Quebec is a province but it is also a city, and it's capital. Have fun. Beer (adrien) |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:55 AM (#2386420) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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 ** Link to a YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w316aA8ed8 The Muppet Movie - Movin' Right Along ** Info from http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Movin'_Right_Along : Music by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams Date 1979 Source The Muppet Movie |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:58 AM (#2386423) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mr Happy Canadian Pacific? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3azZYlhrLiw |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:01 AM (#2386427) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mr Happy Farewell to Nova Scotia http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3MAaQLSSI |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:02 AM (#2386429) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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. ** 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. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:14 AM (#2386433) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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?!} ** 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. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:17 AM (#2386436) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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? |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:25 AM (#2386439) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Ruth Archer 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 |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:26 AM (#2386440) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: quokka Barett's Privateers (Stan Rogers)... "I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers" Cheers, Quokka |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:29 AM (#2386442) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Not sure that Stan was referring to Halifax Nova Scotia in that song. Would have to check. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:33 AM (#2386448) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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 ** 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. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:47 AM (#2386458) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: irishenglish 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) |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:50 AM (#2386460) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi "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 ** *from http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/watson-doc/alberta-1518.html |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:51 AM (#2386461) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald 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. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:57 AM (#2386465) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mooh There has to be a lot of Stompin' Tom Connors songs... Peace, Mooh. |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:59 AM (#2386470) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mooh Runnin' back to Saskatoon, The Guess Who. Peace, Mooh. |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:00 AM (#2386471) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mooh Helpless, Neil Young. |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:02 AM (#2386472) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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. ** 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... -snip- 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. |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:13 AM (#2386474) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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. [??] |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:16 AM (#2386477) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,hilo 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! |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:17 AM (#2386478) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: oldhippie David Rovics - "I wish I was in Vancouver, at the Cannabis Cafe....." |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:28 AM (#2386484) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi 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 ** And here's a YouTube clip of Dick Nolan singing I'se The B'y: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDalYDZ500&feature=related |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:30 AM (#2386487) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi My thanks to all those who have added songs and comments to this thread. Keep'em coming! |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:30 AM (#2386488) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bobad 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 |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:33 AM (#2386492) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,HughM 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? |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:34 AM (#2386494) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Have confirmed that Barett's Privateers song which mention's Halifax and Sherbrooke is in fact the places in Nova Scotia. |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:36 AM (#2386497) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bobad HughM, read about the Franklin expedition |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:48 AM (#2386501) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: quokka 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 |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:52 AM (#2386504) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Deeps The Toronto Song Last Saskatchewan Pirate Both by the Arrogant Worms |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:56 AM (#2386508) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley "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) |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:02 AM (#2386512) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,HiLo Four Strong Winds, Bud The Spud, Alberta Bound, Sudbury Saturday Night, Brave Wolf, Escarpment Blues, Song For Sharon. |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:17 AM (#2386523) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Michele Callaghan How about Fundy Bay, sung by Geoff Kaufmann? It is a beautiful song. Michele C. |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:32 AM (#2386534) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom "Marion Bridge": one of the most beautiful songs ever penned. |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:35 AM (#2386537) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,hilo is that a different song from" out on the Mira" ? |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:39 AM (#2386539) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom GUESThilo: No, I believe it's the same song. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:44 AM (#2386542) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Song for the Mira is the title. Can't sing that one enough. |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:44 AM (#2386543) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer "Song For The Mira" |
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11 Jul 08 - 09:49 AM (#2386546) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Peter Emberley |
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11 Jul 08 - 10:17 AM (#2386562) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Neil D Azizi, just a little piece of pedantic trivia, which may also add to historic knowledge of Canada. The song I'se the B'y does list Canadian place names now, but didn't when it originated. How can this be you ask? All of the place names in the song are in Newfoundland which was not part of Canada until 1949. Newfies like to say that's when Canada decided to join THEM. Since the song is much older than 1949 places like Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton's Harbor and Bonavista were not Canadian then, but are now. Also, I don't think anyone has mentioned "Canadian Railway Trilogy" by Gordon Lightfoot. |
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11 Jul 08 - 10:20 AM (#2386568) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: cetmst Just a few from a cursory search: Where the Peace River Flows Ballad of New Scotland, ca 1750 Fire on the Water - ship disasters, Great Lakes, Montreal Maid of Tidehead Yukon Steve and Alaska Ann Montreal - Wade Hemsworth Montreal December '89 - Judy Small Ballad of St. Ann's Reel Scarborough Settler's Lament Black Fly - Wade Hemsworth, Ontario Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot Banks of Newfoundland Winnipeg Whore Alberta Homesteader Sally Greer - Quebec Prince Edward Island Murder |
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11 Jul 08 - 10:23 AM (#2386572) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,HiLo Woman of Labrador, Red Brother, Red Sister. |
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11 Jul 08 - 10:36 AM (#2386576) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,rasberry cream Picking up from another thread on this board, Boo Hewerdine recorded a song called 'Ontario' which kinda qualifies. It's on an EP he did a couple of years back. |
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11 Jul 08 - 10:51 AM (#2386585) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Neil D Here is a video for Canadian Railroad Trilogy with some beautiful images of Canada. |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:07 AM (#2386595) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bubblyrat Alberta Bound ( Gordon Lightfoot ) , is especially good, as it mentions, as well as the eponymous province, the city of Toronto , where, apparently, you can get a "Honey", ( if you have the money ). I had one once (from Scarborough ,in "Tronner" ), and she was very nice, too !! |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:21 AM (#2386606) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley 'John McLean' , 'Great Lakes People', 'Pontiac', 'Ballad of Louis Riel', 'The Covenant Chain' 'Big Bear' 'Ballad of Crowfoot' just a few written by Willie Dunn |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:25 AM (#2386609) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,HiLo Please, who is Willy Dunn ? |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:33 AM (#2386615) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Songs of The Underground Railroad Oh righteous Father, Wilt thou pity me, And aid me to Canada, Where all the slaves are free! Source: The Story of Underground Railroad by Conrad Stein |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:38 AM (#2386621) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley Willie is a First Nations singer/songwriter/film-maker...Micmac,, one of the first to sing about this land from an Aboriginal perspective.. there's was only a handful in the 60's... Buffy, Floyd Westerman, Peter LaFarge, Pat Sky, Jesse Ed Davis, Shingoose.... that's all I can think of.... now there's hundreds... good to see... and Willie is still truckin' along.... a close friend... |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:56 AM (#2386641) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST Joni Mitchell mentions Maidstone in Song For Sharon on Hejira. I think that Maidstone is in Canada. It's also my hometown in Kent (UK). |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:06 PM (#2386649) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Ron Hynes and Murray MacLaughlin's 'No Chnage in Me' has the great opening line of: You could shoot off a cannon in the middle of Bond And attract no attention in downtown St John's There's also Gary O'Driscoll's 'Out from St Leonards' which as well as the place named in the title also mentions Placentia and Stephenville (and Toslow, and Toronto) Both are Newfoundland songs of course. |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:23 PM (#2386667) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Metchosin Here's one from Vancouver Island, Azizi, that I posted a number of years ago and which still doesn't seem to be in the DT Are You From Bevan? Location: Vancouver Island Date: 1912 to 1915 (see notes) Informant: Words and Music by Phil Thomas Source: Thomas, Philip J. Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Saanichton, B.C.: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1979. 131. Are You From Bevan? Well, hello, stranger, how do you do? There's something I'd like to say to you. You seem surprised I recognize; I'm no company stool but I just surmise You're from the place I'm longing to be. Your smiling face seems to say to me You're from the island, your land and my land, So tell me can it be- Chorus Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan Where those fields of stumps they beckon to me. I'm glad to see you! Tell me how be you, And those friends I'm longing to see? If you're from Union Bay or Courtenay or Cumberland Any place below that Bevan second dam- Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan, 'Cause I'm from Bevan too! Now it was way back in 19 and 12 Our gas committee was put on the shelf. First we walked out, then we were locked out- Then by a foul we were all but knocked out. Our union miners faced guns and jail, Hundreds of us were held without bail, But by August 1914 our labor they were courting, But they blacklisted me- Chorus "Are You From Bevan?" is a mixture of nostalgia and grim recollection. The song tells in brief the story of a two-year episode in the long struggle of the coal miners of Vancouver Island to have the major mine owners accept their right to form a union. In the song a man-no longer a coal miner on the island-hails another whom he remembers from one of the colliery communities in the Cumberland area. He recalls the incident which precipitated the two-year dispute, the firing and blacklisting of the miners' representative on a Gas Committee at one of the Dominion Collieries' mines. He then tells of the men's reaction in Cumberland in September, 1912, where the blacklisted miner had sought work only to be turned away by the management. They took a joint "holiday" to protest this discrimination and to discuss what further they should do. The next day the management ordered them to take their tools from the mine unless they would sign individual two-year contracts. The song then refers to the "foul" that nearly knocked them out. The "foul" was collusion in strike-breaking activities between the provincial government of McBride and Bowser and the owners of Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd. The strike-breaking included: employment in Cumberland of imported miners and Chinese labourers whom the employers were able to intimidate; turning a mine and its townsite into an armed camp with special police and eventually with militia; condoning of armed strike-breakers at Extension, near Nanaimo, when there was no evidence to suggest that the strikers were armed or intending to arm themselves; arrest by duplicity of men gathered in Nanaimo in peaceful assembly; and finally maintaining military rule over the entire mining area to ensure that no union organization could possibly succeed."* *From -Philip Thomas, Songs of the Pacific Northwest |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:26 PM (#2386668) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,HiLo Maidstone is in Sask. I believe that Joni M. was either born there or raised there. |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:32 PM (#2386673) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald To bring in a province that's yet to be mentioned (I think) there's 'Peter Emberley' which tells how young Peter (from PEI) goes to New Brunswick and is killed in an accident whilst working in the lumber industry. It mentions his burial place as Boiestown, about 40 miles from Fredricton. |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:48 PM (#2386683) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Songs are such a great way to learn about history, culture, and geography :o) Thanks to all who have posted on this thread thus far! My preference is that people post lyrics, comments, questions and/or video clips of songs and not just lists of song titles. But "whatever rocks your boat" since it's "different strokes for different folks"* :o)) * These are just some attempted witticism. As I'm still stuck on the I'se the B'y" song. NeilD, thanks for that information about that song which I didn't know until I started hanging out on Mudcat towards the end of 2004. And I just figured out today that "b'y" in that song is a contraction of the word "boy"-or at least I think it is... ** Also special thanks to Hilo for asking the question about Willy Dunn. And another special thanks Ron Bankley for sharing the lyrics to your song. Is there a song clip of it online and if so would you provide a link so we can hear it? ** Btw, rasberry cream, what's an "EP"? |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:52 PM (#2386686) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Lord Batman's Kitchener EP- extended play 45 rpm, with generally four tracks Examples: The Beatles |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:57 PM (#2386690) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,David Chris Hastings and Huw Pudner have got a song called "The Galway Kate" which is about the famine ships leaving Ireland for North America.St Mary's Bay in Newfoundland gets a mention in the last verse. David |
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11 Jul 08 - 01:02 PM (#2386698) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Selchie - (RH) Tanglefoot's Vimy: http://www.tanglefootmusic.com/music/lyrics/mtw.htm#vimy |
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11 Jul 08 - 01:05 PM (#2386702) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Bardford Here's a plethora, eh?: Songs About Canada |
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11 Jul 08 - 01:20 PM (#2386714) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Honest Working Man Written by ? Sung by Catherine McKinnon (sp.) chorus: 'Way down in East Cape Breton, where they knit the sock and mitten Chezzetcook is represented by the husky black and tan. May they never be rejected, and home rule be protected And always be connected with the honest working man! 1. What raises high my dander, next door lives a Newfoundlander Whose wire you cannot stand her, since high living she began, Along with the railroad rackers, also the codfish packers, Who steal the cheese and crackers from the honest working man. 2. When leaves fall in the autumn and fish freeze to the bottom, They take a three-ton schooner and go round the western shore; They load her with provisions, hard tack and codfish mizzens, The like I never heard of since the downfall of Bras d'Or. 3. The man who mixes mortar gets a dollar and a quarter, The sugar-factory worker, he gets a dollar ten, While there's my next-door neighbor, who subsists on outside labour, In the winter scarcely earns enough to feed a sickly hen. 4. They cross the Bay of Fundy, they reach her ona Monday: Do you see my brother Angus? Now tell me if you can. He was once a soap-box greasman, but now he is a policeman Because he could not earn a living as an honest working man. |
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11 Jul 08 - 01:26 PM (#2386721) Subject: Lyr Add: THE CASCA AND THE WHITEHORSE BURNED DOWN From: ClaireBear "Valparaiso in a Rowboat" by Zeke Hoskins is about Windsor, Ontario. "Lonely Yukon Stars," my favorite Riders in the Sky song, is of course about the Yukon Territory. Numerous Stringband songs I know or half-know are about places in Canada. Here's one Stringband song I believe I know by heart. It's about the demise, in Whitehorse by arson in 1974, of two of the last sternwheelers on the Yukon River (you can read about this event, and see photos, here. I love everything about this song, but especially the small positive vignette Bob was able to pull out of this sad story: THE CASCA AND THE WHITEHORSE BURNED DOWN By Bob Bossin We could smell the smoke just as soon as we awoke On a ridge running east from town I put the coffee on, a thermos took along When the Casca and the Whitehorse burned down. The city volunteers pumped water from the river To try and hose the old boats down But the old wood was so dry and the flames they rose so high That the Casca and the Whitehorse burned down. "Fire!" he cried. "Fire on the river!" Muddy waters rollin' deep and brown Old man callin' down along the river When the Casca and the Whitehorse burned down. Old Captain Jim O'Hara he was sittin' in a lawnchair And damned if that old man didn't laugh. He pointed to the smoke, a-rising from the stack And said, "When did you last see that?" Fifteen cord to Dawson and a hundred comin' back Look down how those muddy waters roll The churning paddlewheel raisin' rainbows in the wake And hear that old steamwhistle blow. Fireweed, the perfume of the smoke Muddy waters rollin' deep and brown Pink ladies down in Dawson all come out to watch the boats When the Casca and the Whitehorse come down. |
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11 Jul 08 - 01:34 PM (#2386729) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Hi Lo I am sorry Azizi, of course I should heve given artists names..so here thet are..You're so vain -Carly Simon, Cidadel Hill, of this I am not sure but I have heard many people do it. Cape Breton Lullaby-Catherine MacKinnon, Farewell to Nova Scotia, lots of versions of this but Catherine Ms, version is the best known.She's called Nova Scotia-Rita MacNiel, The Following by Stan Rodgers-Barretts Privateers, Forgartys Cove, Bluenose In The Sun, Rawdon Hills.Gillis Mountain, The Rankins, Ballad of Springhill-ewan mccoll. Orangedale Whistle is also by the Rankins, Caledonia is from a song sung by Ambie Thomas but is best known in the version by Norma Waterson. These all have to do with places in the Prov. of Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. Red Brother, Red Sister is by Bruce Cockburn, Four Stong Winds and Brave Wolf are sung by Ian and Sylvia. Woman of Labrador has been covered many times but I am most familiar with the version by Pamela Morgan.Bud The Spud and Sudbury Saturday Night are both by Tom Connors.Escarpment Blues is by Sarah Harner, Song for Sharon is by Joni Mitchell. |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:06 PM (#2386761) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST From one version of the Irish song, The Green Fields of America (place names are sometimes in a different order in the verse): There's rum in Toronto at a shilling a bottle There's ale in New Brunswick at a penny a glass There's wine in that fine town they call Montreal, boys And the devil be with us, if we don't take a glass And this one is from Newfoundland. See the link for the whole version, which mentions some additional places, but here's the first verse: Harbour Grace Harbour Grace is a very nice place And so is the Bay of Islands, So we give three cheers for Carbonear When the boys come home from swilin'. |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:08 PM (#2386763) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Zhenya Sorry - that last message about Harbour Grace was from me. I forgot I had to clear my cookies to unfreeze my system a few minutes ago. Zhenya |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:12 PM (#2386770) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Both Ian Tyson and Gordon Lightfoot have dwelt on Canadian themes in their songs. But what I remember best is the imagery in their music, the references to Canada's native people, the unique landmarks, lakes and watercourses - a real sense of place that tells the listener he or she is in a different land (unless, of course, you happen to be Canadian). There is a real pride of place in their writing. |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:48 PM (#2386800) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Gulliver This old Irish song mentions "Canadian Woods". Dunno which ones, or where they are, but they're in Canada. Sung by the late, great, Dermot O'Brien on YouTube here. Ireland, boys, Hurrah! Deep in Canadian woods we´ve, met From one bright island flown; Great is the land we tread but yet Our hearts are with our own And ere we leave this shanty small, While fades the autumn day We´ll toast old Ireland, dear old Ireland, Ireland, boys, Hurrah! We´ve heard her faults a hundred times, The new ones and the old, In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes, Enlarged some fifty-fold. But take them all, the great and small, And this we´ve got to say: Here´s dear old Ireland, good old Ireland, Ireland, boys, hurrah! We´ve seen the wedding and the wake, The pattern and the fair, The lithe young frames at the dear old games In the kindly Irish air; And the loud "Hurroo!", we´ve heard it too, And the thundering "Clear the way!" Here´s old Ireland, dear old Ireland, Ireland, boys, Hurrah! And well we know in cool grey eyes, When the hard day´s work is o´er, How soft and sweet are the words that greet The friends who meet once more: With "Mary Machree!" and "My Pat, ´tis thee!" And "My own heart night and day!" And fond old Ireland, dear old Ireland, Ireland, boys, Hurrah! And happy and bright are the groups that pass From their peaceful homes for miles O´er the fields and roads and the hills to Mass, When Sunday morning smiles! And deep the zeal their true hearts feel When low they kneel to pray, In dear old Ireland, blessed old Ireland, Ireland, boys, Hurrah! But deep in Canadian woods we´ve met, And we never may see again The dear old isle where our hearts are set And our first fond hopes remain! But come fill up another cup, And with every sup we´ll say: Here´s loved old Ireland, good old Ireland, Ireland, boys, Hurrah! |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:52 PM (#2386806) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Jack Campin Loads of instrumental tunes with Canadian placenames in their titles. Look at Paul Cranford's Lighthouse Music site for the Cape Breton ones (though it can sometimes be hard to work out whether the tune was originally meant to relate to a place in Canada or to the place in Scotland it was named after). I tried looking for the Mouth of the Tobique on Google Earth (it's the name of a syncopated reel often used for contra dancing). It's a boring river junction surrounded by swamp which seems to be known only to sport fishermen. So how on earth did it get a tune named after it? |
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11 Jul 08 - 02:54 PM (#2386808) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Lord Batman's Kitchener Just maybe someone was inspired enough to want to call the reel Mouth of the Tobique, tht's good enough for me. |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:09 PM (#2386966) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Mick In my opinion the finest song of the Coffin Ships ever written was Brendan Nolan's "Far From Their Homes", in which the brave and compassionate Canadians, and the place they lived in, figure prominently. Here are the lyrics: FAR FROM THEIR HOME A SONG OF GROSSE ILE DOH WE LEFT OUR HOMES AND TRAVELLED, THOUGH GMANY NOT KNOW WHERE WE ALIE. THEY DSAID TWAS A LAND OF PROMISE, BUT GFEW SAW IT DWITH THEIR OWN AEYES. FOR ITS BmHERE ON THIS SAD LONELY AISLAND, WHERE THE GWIND BLOWS COLD TO THE ABONE. WE DREST IN IT'S SOIL FORGGOTTEN, DFAR AAWAY FROM OUR DHOME DON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, OUR GPACKET IT SET ASAIL. DDOWN THE EASTERN COAST WE WOUND, PAST GWEXFORD DAND AKINSALE TILL BmSADLY THE SUNSET AFADED GGENTLY FROM OUR AEYES. AND THE DLIGHTS OF THE SOUTHWEST GFLICKERED AWAY, AS WE DSAID OUR ALAST GOODDBYE. OH IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE THE SUFFERING, AS THIS AWFUL VOYAGE BEGAN. TWO WEEKS OUT TO SEA, WE HAD LOST 10 OR MORE AS THE FEVER TOOK THE STRONGEST OF MEN. AND THE HOLDS WERE BATTENED FOR DAYS ON END, TO STIFLE THE SICKNESS BELOW. WHILE THE WATERS OF THE OCEAN SWALLOWED OUR DEAD, FAR AWAY FROM THEIR HOME. (WHISTLE INTERLUDE) THOUGH OUR SPIRITS THEY WERE WEARY, AS THE GREAT BROAD RIVER BEGAN. AND A WHALE ROSE UP FROM THE WATERS, AS WE SAILED INTO THIS NEW LAND. WITH IT'S HILLSIDES THAT SLOPED TOWARD THE SHORELINE AND VILLAGES CRADLED WITHIN. WE PRAYED THAT THESE PEOPLE COULD PITY OUR PLIGHT,AND FIND A NEW HOME FOR OUR KIN. WITHIN SIGHT OF GROSSE ILE, WE WERE ANCHORED FAR OFF ASHORE. FOR MANY MORE SHIPS LAY WAITING, AND WE'ED STAY MAYBE FIVE DAYS OR MORE. FOR THE LOST ONES OUTNUMBERED THE LIVING, AND A TERRIBLE SIGHT IT WAS PLAIN. AS A PACKET FLOATED OUT IN THE BAY, WITH IT'S HUMAN CARGO AFLAME. AND THE SHEDS OVERFLOWED WITH THE SUFFERING, AND THEIR CRIES PIERCED THE SILENCE AT NIGHT. AND THESE BRAVE ONES WHO TENDED THESE TRAVELLERS, SOME PAID WITH THEIR LIVES IN THE FIGHT. AND I'VE LOST MY OWN ON THIS ISLAND AND MY OWN CANDLE'S NEAR DIED AWAY. TO HAVE TRAVELLED SO FAR ON OUR JOURNEY, HUMBLE VOYAGERS TOGETHER WE'LL STAY. (WHISTLE INTERLUDE) JE M'APPELLE LEO QUINN, MES ANCETRES SONT ICI. ENTERRES SUR GROSSE ILE, QUI FAIT FACE A MA VILLE MONTMAGANY MES SOUVENIRS NE SONT QUE DES FANTOMES, QUI SURVOLLENT ET DANSET DANS LE VENT. ILS DEMANDENT QU'ON SE SOUVIENS D'EUX, MEME SI CE N'EST QU'EN CHANTANT. THERE ARE NO BOATS TIED IN THE RIVER, AND THE CROSS STANDS GAUNT ON THE HILL. NO WRETCHED SHADOWS TROD FROM THE SHORE, TO THE FEVER SHEDS NOW THAT LIE STILL. JUST THE WHITE MARKERS GUARD THEIR MEMORY, NO NAMES CARVED IN GRANITE OR STONE. AND THE LONG GRASS WAVES TO THE WIND AS SHE BLOWS, OER THESE BRAVE ONES FAR FROM THEIR HOME. AND THE LONG GRASS WAVES TO THE WIND AS SHE BLOWS, OER THESE BRAVE ONES FAR FROM THEIR HOME. |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:10 PM (#2386967) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Neil D Yes Azizi, I'se the b'y is Newfoundland English for I'm the boy. Jack Campin says there are loads of instrumental songs with Irish placenames in the title. I'm assuming that the Metis fiddle tune and dance,Red River Jig, refers to a Red River in Manitoba. |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:14 PM (#2386972) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Mick And, of course, my favorite Stan Rogers song, and I love so many of his, was about Citadel Hill in Halifax. While it never mentions the town, every single verse mentions places in the town. Here are the lyrics: It was in the spring this year of grace With new life pushing through That I looked from the citadel down to the narrows and asked what it's coming to Isaw percanegan concrete and glass right down to the water line I have heard an old song down on Fisherman's Wharf Can I sing it just one time With half-closed eyes against the sun for the warm wind giving thank I imagine the years of the warm laden schooners splashing home from the grand banks But a lass lays done in the harbor sun With her picture on a dime I have heard an old song down on Fisherman's Wharf Can i sing it just one time CHORUS: And haul away and heave her ho These songs are sung no more No boats to sing them for No sails to sing them for Now there lies a steady stream of tourists passing through We trade it always for the new Always for the new Always for the new, for the new Now you ask "What's this romantic boy, Who laments what's done and gone?" There was no romance on a cold winter ocean and the gale sang an awful song But my father knew of wind and tide, and my blood is merit time And I heard an old song down on Fisherman's Wharf Can I sing it just one time CHORUS (Repeat first verse) |
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11 Jul 08 - 06:56 PM (#2387002) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Mick, I have a picture of Brendan and me which I cherish very much. What a wonderful person, gifted writer and voice. Far From Their Homes a truly tragic song with great imagery. Adrien |
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11 Jul 08 - 07:39 PM (#2387033) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Jack Campin LBT, "Mouth of the Tobique" is relatively modern - the composer must still be alive - and nearly always with that sort of tune the story behind the title is not only well-documented, it's widely used in stage patter. For some of us, it would be worth knowing what it is. Maybe the jerky rhythm in the third part is a fish on a line? Neil D: I didn't say anything about Irish placenames. Cape Breton's culture is predominantly Scottish, and in placenames Scotland features much more strongly than Ireland across the whole of Canada, for that matter. "Miss Forbes's Farewell to Banff" is not about the Rockies. If you were to include only one instrumental tune I would pick Paul Cranford's beautiful fiddle lament "The Graveyard of the Gulf", about the shipwrecks in the Gulf of St Lawrence (something he spent a long time thinking about in his job as a lighthouse keeper). |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:05 PM (#2387049) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Mick Adrien, mon ami, I have many influences in my musical life. Brendan, young though he may be, is one of the very important ones. I love his ability to interpret a song, and his instrumental virtuousity is worthy of great praise. There is a wonderful song about growing up Irish, and Roman Catholic, called "All I Remember". I have spent a very long time trying to do this with the same effect that Brendan does, but I cannot. Devil and the Bailiff, the same. He simply has the way of them. And when he does a ballad, he is able to draw out every emotion that the song needs drawn out. I am, unabashedly and finally, a fan. I remember when I was performing in Toronto for Rick's CD release. We did that as a live performance on CIUT, and streamed it on the Internet. I mentioned Brendan, and this fella comes up to me and asks me if I knew "A Song For The Road", by Brendan. I said, "sure, I absolutely love that but Brendan didna write it, Holmes Hooke did". He said, "I know, I'm Holmes Hooke". We had a great laugh. That was a helluva night. All the great Borealis talents were there, plus a few others. I was very honored to perform with them. But ..... do yourself a favor. Never ..... may I repeat this .....never ...... follow Ken Whitely onstage. LOL. All the best, Mick |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:52 PM (#2387072) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom A very moving and beautiful song by David Francey, "The Flowers of Saskatchewan": FLOWERS OF SASKATCHEWAN The sun was shining on the English Channel On a ferry off the coast of France It was summer and a pleasant morning And high above gulls wheeled and danced And high above the cliffs of morning The gun emplacements had stood in ranks I walked over to the railing And I heard the ghosts of the Calgary Tanks And I remembered pictures I'd seen In history books and magazines Of three men standing, smoking, staring Among the dead men on a rocky beach And in the light of that pleasant morning As we sailed under the cliffs above I thought of all their silent prayers And the final thoughts of the ones they loved That they left behind at prairie stations Waving to their pride and joy Waving to the smiling faces Smiling faces on the soldier boys of? No waves of grain would claim the fallen Just the channel cold and grey as steel And no return to the rolling prairie And a silent cross on a lonely field The sun was shining on the rolling prairie Far from the channel, cold and grey Shone on the families, friends and lovers Of the prairie boys who fell that day But they could not know on that sunny morning The future held for them no joy They'd wait in vain at prairie stations Wait in vain for their soldier boys Words and Music: ©David Francey (1998) |
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11 Jul 08 - 08:54 PM (#2387073) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: John on the Sunset Coast I believe there is a Canadian version of "This Land is Your Land" which mentions various cities and sites. Also, Alan Mills recorded a Canadian version of "Old Sod Shanty on the Plain', but I don't know if it mentions a particular place. |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:16 PM (#2387133) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: CupOfTea Song for the Mira and other songs by the Cape Breton songwriter Allister MacGillivray for sheer love of place. For just plain silly: "Mermaid of Ontario" by Shel Silverstein & Pat Dailey A favorite around Lake Erie - has been recorded by Lee Murdock - whose exploration of Great Lakes songs isn't limited to the American Side - many of his (serious) songs have Canadian context and place names. Eileen McGann's Requiem only mentions "north Ontario" but her repertoire might be worth looking into- I've only got her on cassette & can't dig that out right now. David Mallet's Ballad of St. Anne's Reel mentions Prince Edward Island |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:17 PM (#2387137) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Neil D Jack Campin, my bad. I typed that in a hurry because I was just going out take the grandkids to a carnival which is going on, literally, right outside my door this weekend. Really. Even now there is a Beatles "tribute" band playing not 50 feet from where I sit. And I had just posted elsewhere about Irish pints. So excuse my befuddlement. Of course I meant to type Canadian placenames. |
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12 Jul 08 - 12:31 PM (#2387358) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom Wade Hemsworth's "The Black Flies of Ontario" |
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12 Jul 08 - 12:54 PM (#2387371) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: john f weldon Most songs by Wade Hemsworth... Land of the Muskeg & the Shining Birch Tree Montreal (actual name of the song) Blackflies (North Ontario) etc etc Lots of songs recorded and/or written by Flapjack, such as Manitoulin Boy etc etc |
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12 Jul 08 - 01:08 PM (#2387388) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Here's the lyrics and notes about a 19th century {and possibly earlier} children's ring [circle] game that mention a Canadian place name: "A similar ring game [to "My Pretty Little Pink"] is described by JAF {Journal of American Folklore], 1892, 118, reprinted in Folklore in American, 184, as "Quebec Town." The opening lines are: We are marching down to Quebec town, Where the drums and fifes are beating; The Americans have gained the day, And the British are retreating. The description states that the "song was sung by the whole company [of children], as it marched around one person, who ws blindfolded, and seated in a chair placed in the center of the room. He or she then selected a partner by touching one of the ring with a long stick held for that purpose". In some versions the person selected won a kiss. Tune supplied by the editors." -snip- These notes-including the paragraph beginning with the word "The description"-are from a reproduced page of a book I don't believe that I own. Unfortunately, this page somehow got separated from the title page & publisher of the book itself. Therefore, I'm unable to say which book it is. However, given that note and others on the two pages I have, this is from a book or chapter of a book about American children's recreational activities. That certainly narrows the field quite a bit. |
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12 Jul 08 - 01:11 PM (#2387390) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Sorry. That's Folklore In America, which I suppose means folklore in the United States of America. |
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12 Jul 08 - 01:31 PM (#2387405) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST How about the ultimate place name song written by Nova Scotian, Hank Snow? I've been everywhere |
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12 Jul 08 - 01:35 PM (#2387410) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor Hank doing it |
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12 Jul 08 - 01:40 PM (#2387414) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor I was GUEST 12 Jul 08 - 01:31 PM Another geography lesson from Hank Snow. Canadian Pacific |
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13 Jul 08 - 07:59 AM (#2387712) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: MartinRyan Just heard again, this week, for the first time in many years The Star of Logy Bay , an old favourite of mine. Regards |
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13 Jul 08 - 08:16 AM (#2387718) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Frank_Finn The song called "The Green Fields of Amerikay" mentions some Canadian places but mentions no American places Here is a verse There's wine in Toronto at a penny a bottle The gin in New Brunswick's a penny a glass, There's ale in that famed town they call Montreal, boys, The devil be with us if we dont take a glass |
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13 Jul 08 - 03:29 PM (#2387925) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom "Prince Edward Island is Heaven to Me". |
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13 Jul 08 - 10:10 PM (#2388133) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Joe_F In Bob Gibson & Tom Paxton's "Box of Candy & Piece of Fruit" (in the DigiTrad), the hero starts out in a coffeehouse in Toronto. |
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13 Jul 08 - 10:54 PM (#2388143) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer tom, Here is the song which I posted on a different thread but should also appear here. Prince Edward Island Is Heaven To Me They talk about Texas , Kentucky and Maine, Talk about London, Paris and Spain. But there's a little island, I long there to be. Prince Edward Island is heaven to me. The shores are so pretty, the fields are so green, The roads are so winding, with such pretty scenes. The air is so pure and the people so gay, Prince Edward Island , I'm coming to stay. There's swimming and hunting and fishing galore. The sun shines so bright on its long golden shore. The Lord made this island for all men to see; Prince Edward Island is heaven to me. THIS VERSE IS SPOKEN As everyone knows, there are ten provinces in the Dominion of Canada,each beautiful in its own respect. There's British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Saskatchewan, But Prince Edward Island to me is the one. Last verse The soil is so fertile, so rich and so rare, It yields such potatoes, which none can compare. Tourists are welcome to walk its red soil. While farmers are happy to work and to toil. Words and music by Harold Breau |
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14 Jul 08 - 06:40 AM (#2388271) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Thanks, Adrien for posting that song. Here's a hyperlink to that other thread: thread.cfm?threadid=112708&messages=8 Lyr Req: Prince Edward Island is Heaven to Me ** Also, here's a hyperlink for a map of Canada that I've been using to identify the provinces and towns that are mentioned in this thread: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/lgcolor/cacolor.htm -snip- Thanks to the song posted above, I patted myself on the back when I figured out that P.E.I is Prince Edwards Island. |
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14 Jul 08 - 06:52 AM (#2388275) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi This information from an online learning site for elementary students may also be helpful to other people who are learning about Canada: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Canada/Canadamap.shtml Canada's Geography Canada: Canada is a huge country in the continent of North America. Canada is comprised of 3,849,675 square miles (9,976,140 square km); it is the second-largest country in the world (Russia is first at 17,075,200 sq km). This huge country borders the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the United States of America. Canada has over 151,480 miles (243,791 km) of coastline. Most of Canada's human population lives along its southern border... The Capital: The capital of Canada is the city of Ottawa, which is in the province of Ontario, located above the Great Lakes. Provinces and Territories: Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories (the capital of each is shown in parentheses): Alberta (Edmonton), British Columbia (Victoria), Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown), Manitoba (Winnipeg), New Brunswick (Fredericton), Nova Scotia (Halifax), Nunavut (Iqaluit), Ontario (Toronto), Quebec (Quebec City), Saskatchewan (Regina); Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's), Northwest Territories (Yellowknife), and Yukon Territory (Whitehorse). -snip- That website also has a "label the provinces" map quiz that I've not taken yet. But I think I'd do much better now that I've looked up the Canadian places mentioned in the songs posted on this thread. Thanks! |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:04 AM (#2388279) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Kevin Parker Dear Azizi, If you ever get the chance go and see Tanglefoot. http://www.tanglefootmusic.com/ Even if you don't like the music, you'll learn a huge amount about the geography and history of Eastern Canada, just from their 'between the songs' anecdotes and introductions. And they are nice people! |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:11 AM (#2388281) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Thanks, Kevin. I'll check them out. Btw, I like the "Stay informed and keep in touch" note on their website. Those are some good words to live by. |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:26 AM (#2388284) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST Azizi, Pass on my regards if you see them. I met them on their last tour to Scotland. By the way, can any Canadians illuminate the lyrical references in Stan Roger's Song North West Passage? I know that Franklin refers to the English Explorer who died trying to find the North West Passage. But what is 'In the footsteps of Great Kelso, where his sea of flowers began' all about? And in the next verse we have 'I think upon MacKenzie, David Thompson, and the rest, who crcked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me, to race the roaring Fraser to the sea' I think I know about MacKenzie, but who was David Thompson? Am I right in thinking the sea they were reaching was the Pacific somewhere near where Vancouver is now? I love singing the song but it would be good to be better informed! |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:28 AM (#2388285) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Azizi, if you want to know more about Canada from a U.S. perspective, have a look at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) webpages. |
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14 Jul 08 - 08:04 AM (#2388306) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Terry, I appreciate your posting information about the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Here's a link to the ACSUS Mandate page which provides inforamtion about that group: http://www.acs-aec.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=7 I'm particularly interested in their Canadian Diversity and Canadian History publications. I assume that current and back copies of these journals might be available for reading at large libraries. However, I was hoping to read articles online. Maybe it's my computer, but I wasn't able to do that. :o( See how the Internet has spoiled us... |
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14 Jul 08 - 09:00 AM (#2388355) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Azizi - I don't know whether the ACSUS Journal is available online (the London Journal for Canadian Studies is)but it might be worthwhile contacting David Archibald at ACSUS. He's most helpful. Americans (and Canadians) are often rather amused that people actually study Canada but there are dozens of Canadian Studies' Assocations around the world. Some of them are based solely in one country, others are joint ventures (e.g. the Scandinavians.) The Canadian government has traditionally beeen supportive of the Associations but since Stephen Harper came to power, the purse strings have been tightened.Some of them produce their own scholarly journals (I was Editor of the British Journal of Canadian Studies for four years) and they contain a wealth of material on all things Canadian. |
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14 Jul 08 - 09:17 AM (#2388371) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Very interesting Terry. I'm a small time collector of Canadian History books prior to 1950. Why that date I don't know. I just picked it. I have in my collection 162 books and counting. Now back to Azizi's thread. Adrien |
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14 Jul 08 - 09:23 AM (#2388373) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: olddude Alberta bound by lightfoot |
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14 Jul 08 - 09:45 AM (#2388394) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: SouthernCelt Probably 10% or more of Ian Tyson's stuff mentions Canadian places and even more mention fictitious names that are likely triggered by Canadian places. A few that come to mind are "Albert's Child," "Old Alberta Moon," "The North Saskatchewan," "Great Canadian Tour,"Springtime in Alberta,"Milk River Ridge" and "Horsethief Moon." Then there's Slaid Cleaves' "Breakfast in Hell" that mentions PEI, Musquash River, Severen Sound, etc. SC |
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14 Jul 08 - 10:37 AM (#2388432) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Hi Beer/Adrien - there's word for people like us, it's 'Canadianists.' The British Canadianist community (c400 members)is small but healthy. |
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14 Jul 08 - 11:16 AM (#2388474) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST "Winnipeg" by Tom Russell "Girls of Montreal" by Artie Traum "Calgary" by Humphrey & the Dumptrucks "Streets of Calgary" by Kate Wolf "Ste. Anne de Bellevue" by Cindy Church "Lillooet" by Chris Rawlings |
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14 Jul 08 - 11:28 AM (#2388492) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: sian, west wales Hi Azizi I was in Canada when this thread got going so this is my first scan-through. No one's mentioned "Something to Sing About" (Oscar Brand) and I think it's mentioned in other threads. Similarly "This Land is Your Land" - the Canadian version. And various others that cropped up in the 60s (like Ontari-ari-ario). Haven't found them on Youtube for you though (yet). I bought the book, "Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors" a while ago, mostly because I wanted the two songs which are connected with my home town, "Port Colborne" - "On Gravelly Bay" and "The Timber Drougher Bigler". Skimming through the others, it seems that naming places was common practice, just as in lumbering songs. Also, as in lumbering songs, listing the names of your co-workers was common. And then there's the perpetual argument as to "The Red River Valley" - Canada, or USA? sian |
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14 Jul 08 - 12:00 PM (#2388552) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Terry. I have to admit I was not sure if you were kidding or not so I googled "Canadianists". I wasn't aware of this. Thank you so much. Adrien |
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14 Jul 08 - 02:01 PM (#2388727) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald You're welcome, Beer. I had hoped to be at last year's ACSUS conference and was scheduled to give a paper in which I would argue that folk songs from the Britain and Ireland that crossed the Atlantic in the 19th century retain more of their original sound in Canada than they do in America. Honestly.... It was to be a spin off from one I gave in Ottawa a few years ago called 'They took their music with them...' but that one only looked at Canadian versions of English/Scots/Irish songs. |
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14 Jul 08 - 04:49 PM (#2388931) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST There's this one from Jesse Winchester- Pourquoi Ne M'Aimes-Tu Pas? Gardes mon nouveau chapeau Et mon poil de chameau Mes bottes noires a talons hauts Mes boutons de manchette Ils jouent "L'Alouette" Peses ces choses-la au verso Et toujours tu m'aimes pas Mais personne n'a plus que moi Et Chantal, c'est tout pour toi Mais pourquoi m'aimes-tu pas? J'ai un skidoo rouge Qui vraiment se bouge Un beau chalet aux Laurentides Et mon perroquet Qui sacre en Angials Quand sa tasse d'eau est vide Triste, o triste, o ce n'est pas le mot Tellemet riche, mais tellement pauvre O pauvre Et ma cave de vins Est pleine de Chambertin Je ne peux pas le boire moi meme J'ai des fourmis la Enrobees de chocolat Ta maman m'a dit que tu les aimes ©1977 Jesse Winchester From the LP "Nothing But A Breeze" |
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14 Jul 08 - 05:10 PM (#2388967) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: oldhippie Then there's this: The Killaloe Rastaman - Rick Reimer (with gratitude and apologies to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) Come, we tell you little story about a guy named Bob A proud Rastaman, didn't want to steal nor rob But he had to feed his family, things were getting hard So he plants a little ganja in his backyard Pot, that is, Acapulco Gold, Sensi tea Well, the first thing you know, those plants are getting tall The neighbours come and suss-suss-suss and look over the wall They said "Hey, Bob! Growing ganja you can't do!" He loaded up his seeds and he moved to Killaloe. Hills, that is, swimming holes, shooting stars. Well, the folks in the hills liked having Bob around He grew the finest ganja from here to Wilno town He lived in the woods, didn't do no-one no harm And the buds on his plants grew as thick as your arm. Well, there's just one little mix-up about life in Killaloe There's way too much police, with not enough to do When rastaman grows ganja it just takes a little time Till Johnny Law comes to the scene of the crime Felony, that is, helicopters, tazer guns. Well the police find so much ganja, that they can hardly wait They build a great big fire and begin to eradicate They tell Bob: "You're lucky we don't charge you for your sin!" Only trouble is, police are standing downwind From the ganja fire, that is, second-hand smoke, munchies big-time. Well, the police get high and they forget to look around They get their lights a-flashing and they leave for Pembroke town They eat all the food that Tim Horton's can provide Every doughnut shop got a cruiser outside Well, the folks in the hills, they smell the ganja fire They look upon the burning field and cry and cry and cry Says Bob: "I got a secret tucked up under my hat. I got three more fields bigger than that!" Well, the moral of the story is very plain to see You needn't be an Einstein to fool the O.P.P. If you are only conscious and prepared to stand tall Babylon systems surely must fall! |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:12 PM (#2389113) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom Farewell to Nova Scotia |
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14 Jul 08 - 07:21 PM (#2389120) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: topical tom Sorry, "Farewell to Nova Scotia " is in the digitrad here |
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15 Jul 08 - 09:50 AM (#2389565) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley John Prine mentions Montreal in that 'Blow up the TV' song... not sure of the real title.... C eh, N eh, D eh.... |
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15 Jul 08 - 10:21 AM (#2389583) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Spanish Pipedream (AKA Blow Up Your TV) from his first Album |
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15 Jul 08 - 10:51 AM (#2389614) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST "Wintry Feeling" by Jesse Winchester is about winter in Montreal. When Raffi was a folkie singer-songwriter, before he became a children's music megastar, he had a song called "Yonge Street" about the street in Toronto. Ian Tyson's "Summer Wages" mentions "all the beer parlors down along Main Street," a reference to the cheap bars on Main Street on the east side of Vancouver. The J.D. Crowe and David Bromberg versions of "Summer Wages" incorrectly changed Main Street to Yonge Street, a street that's about 2700 miles east of Main STreet. |
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15 Jul 08 - 11:55 AM (#2389692) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Golightly Spirit of the West's 'Gottingen Street'. I believe Gottingen Street is a real place in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
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15 Jul 08 - 12:20 PM (#2389721) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Oh. So now we're on songs that mention Canadian streets? Well, streets are places. But I'm not gonna look them up on Google Earth or whatever that website is called that shows you actual video of specific streets and houses and other landmarks. |
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15 Jul 08 - 12:44 PM (#2389753) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bobad Well, since we're now doing streets, here is one that mentions the main shopping street in Montreal, or rather, it's subterranean counterpart: Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle: "Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine" Moi j'me promène sous Ste-Catherine J'profite de la chaleur du métro Je n'me regarde pas dans les vitrines Quand il fait trente en dessous d'zéro Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques Je ne me sens pas intrépide Quand il fait fret j'fais pas du ski J'ai pas d'motel aux Laurentides Le samedi c'est l'soir du hockey Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques Faut pas croire que j'suis une imbécile Parce que j'chauffe pas une convertible La gloire c'est pas mal inutile Au prix de gaz c'est trop pénible Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques On est tous frères pis ça s'adonne Qu'on a toujours eu du bon temps Parce qu'on reste sur la terre des hommes Même les femmes et les enfants Y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique Vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques Croyez pas qu'on n'est pas chrétien Le dimanche on promène son chien |
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15 Jul 08 - 01:42 PM (#2389825) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley 'Where will I be"... by Emmylou Harris from her 'Wrecking Ball' CD written by Daniel Lanois, who is CDN... "Met an Indian boy in Ottawa He laid me down in a bed of straw...." |
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15 Jul 08 - 02:26 PM (#2389881) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Met an Indian boy in Ottawa He laid me down in a bed of straw Sorry, but when I read this, I thought of the cumulative song "And The Green Grass Grows All Around"- Ottawa. bed of straw. straw in the barn. barn in the yard. yard in the farm. farm in the country. country in a nation. where the green grass grows all around all around where the green grass grows all around. -snip- * My sincerest apologies to Daniel Lanois for mixing up all those lines from children's rhymes and from my sometimes wacked up mind. I mean no disrespect. -snip- More seriously, Ron [much more seriously] what does "CDN" mean? |
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15 Jul 08 - 02:34 PM (#2389901) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Sorry again. But this is bothering me. For consistency's sake, that line should be "country in the nation" Okay. I can stop obsessing now. :o) |
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15 Jul 08 - 02:45 PM (#2389915) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley CDN = Canadian,,, as in $100 CDN |
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15 Jul 08 - 02:50 PM (#2389924) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Oh. So does CDN stand for Canadian dinero? Just kidding. Excuse me. |
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15 Jul 08 - 03:04 PM (#2389942) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Okay.Sorry. I'm slow on the uptake here. You mean that a colloquial referent for a person who is born in Canada and/or lives in Canada is CDN and that CDN is the term for Canadian money and that term probably doesn't come from the Spanish word for money which is dinero. So...now I'm trying to figure out what C D N stands for- Canadian something something Do you guys and gals call your dollar a dollar? If so, maybe the "D" stands for dollar. But the "N"? maybe "Nation"? So do I have to go to Goggle to find this out? And when was the last time on this thread that I said "I love Canada"? What? I never said it before I said it then? Oh. My bad. I hope everyone knows that I'm only having fun, but I don't want that fun to be at anyone's expense.{Get it "expense"? Ha Ha}. But so there's no mistake-I love Canada. I particularly love what Canada represented to my people way back when-Freedom. |
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15 Jul 08 - 03:52 PM (#2390011) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley the dollar is called a 'Loony' because of the loon on back of the coin... 2 dollar coin is called a Toonie... tho' there isn't a toon on the back.. just polar bears (on thin ice)... the rest of the bills are multi-coloured.. 5-blue 10-purple 20-green 50-red 100-brown (my favorite) no more 1000 bills.... something about the war on drugs or trying to prevent large amounts of cash being easily transported and used for illicit activities... like trying to rent a 'toon'.... |
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15 Jul 08 - 05:35 PM (#2390128) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Ed T Anyone register Carly Simon's Your So Vain, and the Nova Scotia mention? Also, many of Stomp'in Tom Connor's songs mention less mentioned places. |
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15 Jul 08 - 05:59 PM (#2390151) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Azizi - CDN = CanaDiaN |
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15 Jul 08 - 06:09 PM (#2390164) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Ed T Wasn't there a song "I want to go back to Escouminac? If not, someone should consider making one about this fine New Brunswick place. |
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15 Jul 08 - 06:54 PM (#2390202) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Terry, thanks for your 15 Jul 08 - 05:59 PM post. I get it now. :o) |
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15 Jul 08 - 07:17 PM (#2390217) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: oldhippie There's a song by The Fiddlers'Sons titled "Gaspereaux" from PEI. It's on the "Island Mix" tourism promo CD. |
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15 Jul 08 - 07:40 PM (#2390230) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Al Whittle Yukon get it if you really want |
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15 Jul 08 - 08:02 PM (#2390237) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bankley 'Chibougamou Boogaloo'... Chris Rawlings |
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15 Jul 08 - 08:09 PM (#2390243) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi weelittledrummer, I like that one. So who recorded it? ;o) |
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15 Jul 08 - 08:23 PM (#2390254) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Al Whittle Picketywitch.....(just guessing!) |
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15 Jul 08 - 08:31 PM (#2390259) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Ed T http://www.acmuseum.ednet.ns.ca/slim.htm |
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15 Jul 08 - 09:37 PM (#2390300) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: The Walrus No one seems to have mentioned the Canadian soldiers' song of the Great War "Take Me Back to Dear Old Canada" (a Canadian take on the British sone "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty"):- Take me back to dear old Canada, Put me on the boat for old St. John, Take me over there, drop me anywhere, Toronto, Hull or Montreal, well I don't care. I should like to see my best girl, Cuddling up again we soon should be. Whoa, Tiddley, iddley ighty, I'd sooner be there than Blighty, Canada is the place for me. Any use? Tom. |
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15 Jul 08 - 09:45 PM (#2390301) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Good one Tom, never heard it. Adrien |
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16 Jul 08 - 08:43 AM (#2390522) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Snuffy It was in the town of Q-beck, we landed on the quay But I knew not where to seek my love in all Americay Now I hear this couple has got wed as you may understand And I hear they live quite happily in a town they call St. Johns.. North Americay |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:02 AM (#2392065) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi But as a means of refreshing this thread, I'm going to post a couple of songs here from the DigiTrad. Why? 'Cause this thread is callin me. And-without cheating-I don't know any more songs that mention Canadian places. |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:03 AM (#2392068) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi POOR LITTLE GIRLS OF ONTARIO 1. I'll sing you a song of that lone pest It goes by the name of the Great Northwest I cannot have a beau at all, They all skip out there in the fall. Chorus One by one, they all clear out, Thinking to better themselves, no doubt, Caring little how far they go From the poor little girls of Ontario. 2. First I got mashed on Charley Brown The nicest fellow in all the town But he tipped his hat and sailed away And now he's settled in Manitobay. 3. Then Henry Maynard with his white cravat His high stiff collar and his new plug hat He said if he stayed, he'd have to beg And now he's settled in Winnipeg. 4. Then my long-legged druggist with his specs on his nose, I really thought that he'd propose But he's sold his bottle-shop and now he's gone Clear out to little Saskatchewan. 5. I'll pack my clothes in a carpet sack I'll go out there and I'll never come back I'll find me a husband, and a good one, too If I have to go through to Cariboo. Last Chorus One by one, we'll all clear out Thinking to better ourselves, no doubt, Caring little how far we go From the old, old folks of Ontario. from Mrs. Hartley Minifie, Peterborough, to Edith Fowke: "Folk Songs of Ontario", Folkways, 1958 @displaysong.cfm?SongID=4744 |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:05 AM (#2392069) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi RANCHER OF BC When the half-baked remittance man comes to the West Arrayed in short pants, which he thinks suits him best, He parades around town, while he takes a short rest Ere assuming the role of a rancher. Chorus: Role, role, role of a rancher, A rancher of B.C. Now all you remittance men, listen to me And I'll give you some pointers as far as I may Which might make you a rancher if you will obey, A rancher that's fit for a rancher. Fit, fit, fit for a rancher, etc. First, mind you don't stay in Victoria long; The water is bad and the liquor is strong, And as you must drink something, you're sure to go wrong, And spoil your success as a rancher. 'Cess,'cess,'cess as a rancher, etc. Take advice if you buy a fine ranch by a stream, Don't leave for trout fishing your cows and your cream, But make butter and wealth beyond your greediest dream, Which is far the best plan for a rancher. Plan, plan, plan for a rancher, etc. If when riding your bronco he starts in to buck, And you fear if you fall by his hoofs you'll be struck, Throw your arms round his neck, man, and trust to your luck, If you can't keep your seat like a rancher. Seat, seat, seat like a rancher, etc. If in hunting for deer on some lone mountain top Across a big bear you should happen to drop, Just climb the first tree and be sure there to stop Till assistance arrives for the rancher. 'Rives,'rives, 'rives for the rancher, etc. If after long striving on Vancouver's plains You find that your debts are the whole of your gains Go up to the Klondike with the cash that remains, And get better off than a rancher. Off, off, off than a rancher, etc. From Songs of the Pacific Northwest, Thomas @displaysong.cfm?SongID=4876 |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:07 AM (#2392073) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST CDN = Canadian,,, as in $100 CDN I grew up thinking CDN = Cote-des-Neiges.
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18 Jul 08 - 10:11 AM (#2392080) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Okay. I said "a couple" but I'm going to post two more. My sincerest compliments to those persons who compiled these songs for the Digital Tradition! Would someone please help me out by posting the names of those persons who are in charge of teh Digital Tradition. Thanks, in advance! |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:13 AM (#2392084) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi THE ALBERTA HOMESTEADER 1. My name is Dan Gold, an old bachelor I am I'm keeping old batch on an elegant plan You'll find me out here on Alberta's bush plain A-starving to death on a government claim. 2. So come to Alberta, there's room for you all, Where the wind never ceases, [and] the rain always falls Where the sun always sets and there it remains Till you [we] get frozen out of your [our] government claim. 3. My house it is built of the natural soil The walls are erected according to Hoyle The roof has no pitch, it is level and plain And I always get wet when it happens to rain. 4. My clothes they are [are all] ragged, my language is rough My bread is case-hardened and solid and tough My dishes are scattered all over the room And [] my floor is [gets] afraid of the sight of a broom. 5. How happy I am [feel] when I roll into bed The rattlesnake rattles a tune at my head And [] the little mosquito, devoid of all fear Crawls over my face and into my ear. 6. The little bed-bug, so cheerful and bright, He [It] keeps me up laughing two-thirds of the night And the smart little flea with the [] tacks in his toes Crawls up through my whiskers and tickles my nose. 7. You may try to raise wheat, you may try to raise rye You may stay there and live, you may stay there and die But as for myself, I'll no longer remain A-starving to death on a government claim. 8. So farewell to Alberta, farewell to the west It's backwards I'll go to the girl I love best I'll go back to the east and get me a wife And never eat cornbread the rest of my life! collected from Ivan E. Brandrick, Athens, Ont., 1958 by Edith Fowke; from "The Greer County Bachelor".JB @displaysong.cfm?SongID=5753 |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:15 AM (#2392090) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi THE CLIFFS OF BACCALIEU We were bound home in October from the shores of Laborador Trying to head a bad Nor'easter and snow, too But the wind swept down upon us making day as black as night Just before we made the land of Baccalieu. Oh we tried to clear the Island as we brought her farther South And the wind from out the Nor'east stonger blew Till our lookout soon he shouted and there lay dead ahead Through the snow squalls loomed the cliffs of Baccalieu. It was hard down by the tiller as we struggled with the sheets Tried our best to haul them in a foot or two Till our decks so sharply tilted that we could barely keep our feet As we hauled her from the rocks of Baccalieu. Oh the combers beat her under and we thought she ne'er would rise And her mainboom was bending neigh in two With our lee rails three feet under and two hands at the wheel Sure, we hauled her from the rocks of Baccalieu Oh to leeward was the island and to win'ard was the gale And the blinding sleet would cut you through and through But our hearts were beating gladly for no longer could we gaze Down to leeward at the cliffs of Baccalieu. Traditional >From the singing of the Kenny Family from Kitchuses, NFLD Tune to be supplied by Vincent Kenny of Brooklyn, NY @displaysong.cfm?SongID=6054 |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:19 AM (#2392093) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Did we post at least one song that mentions each of the Canadian provinces? I suppose there aren't any songs yet that mention the Canadian territories. But hopefully, some will written soon. |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:19 AM (#2392095) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Folkiedave Any body mentioned flowers of Saskatchewan? Nice anti-war song. |
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18 Jul 08 - 10:34 AM (#2392115) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Yes, many posts back. But why is it called 'Flowers of Saskatchewan' when it's about the Calgary Tanks? David Francey has been in Canada long enough to know where Calgary is! |
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18 Jul 08 - 12:13 PM (#2392174) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: ClaireBear Azizi, I posted one that was about the Yukon -- so one territory is covered, anyway! Claire |
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18 Jul 08 - 12:40 PM (#2392200) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Great, Claire! Thanks! I confess I haven't kept track of all the titles that have been posted on this thread. I suppose I could go back and list them alphabetically. But that just seems like too much work now... Besides I'm supposed to be doing other work. And I am. Really I am. I just take a little break every now & then. :o} |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:04 PM (#2392350) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Coffee with thumb Maybe I've missed this in all the posts,apologies if it's been noted before: 'Willie wept many tears and he took to the road he said I have to part and the last time I heard he was in Montreal where he died of a broken heart.' Why Canada,presumably from US? His relationship with Annie was probably'inter-racial' |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:18 PM (#2392364) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Coffee with thumb, which song is that verse from?* Thanks for posting that song along with your comment about the possible reason why Willie and Annie parted. As to your guess about the relationship between them being interracial, I suppose that's possible [it certainly is more possible nowadays]. But unless the lyrics point to that theory, how would anyone know? *I was taught that it's not "good English" to end a sentence with a preposition. But writing it without the preposition at the end looks too contrived for me. {Ha! I was also taught that sentences should never start with "And" or "But". You see how well I follow those instructions!} |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:23 PM (#2392372) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald It's Willy Moore, Azizi. It's always intrigued me (as an Emigration Historian)as I have copies of letters home from a young man named William Moore who emigrated from Somerset (England) to Canada in 1830 but vanishes from the records a couple of years later. |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:33 PM (#2392382) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Genie A French Canadian rowing song, "C'est L'aviron" mentions a place called Rochelle. (I THINK it's a place, not a woman. Otherwise, Rochelle is gonna murder the guy when she hears the song.) It starts out, "M'en revenant de ma jolie Rochelle (x2) J'ai rencontré trois jolie mademoiselles. C'est l'aviron qui nous mene, qui nous mene, C'est l'aviron qui nous mene en haut. |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:40 PM (#2392392) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Coffee with thumb Yes,it would have been a good idea to mention the title.Thanks Terry. I've assumed for the past 40-odd years that it's in the American canon,but I really can't think why.I got it from Alex Campbell records,perhaps he said he'd got it from Derroll Adams. CWT(UK) |
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18 Jul 08 - 03:40 PM (#2392395) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Genie Summer Wages - Ian Tyson ("We'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver ... ") Isn't Isle Au Haut in Canada (Nova Scotia)? I thought it was. Several songs about it. Some versions of The Unfortunate Miss Bailey (Miss Bailey's Ghost) specify that the "Captain bold" was in Halifax. |
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30 Jul 08 - 05:11 PM (#2401688) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: ToulouseCruise "Mother Miramichi" is a great little tune about the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick... And just being a little anal... PEI stands for Prince Edward Island, not Prince Edward's - we were named for him, not owned by him ;-) Brian (living in NB, though always an Islander) |
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31 Jul 08 - 05:24 AM (#2402039) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Danno Tip Splinter, an Irish/Canadian band from Toronto brought out a compilation CD in the early 1990's "The Living Tradition",which included songs with Canadian names written by Kieran Wade, one of the singers in the band. "The Fields of Saskatchewan", was one about an Irish emigrant to Saskatchewan-: "The autumn winds are blowin' across the south Saskatchewan prairie, Bringin' just a hint of cold and winter still to come..." "The Shores of Newfoundland", about the first Irish settlers there, was another. I think this track was included on a Mariposa Folk CD in the early 90's and the song was also covered by Celtic Connections from Newfoundland. I heard Tip Splinter had a re-union gig recently in Hugh's Room in Toronto, so maybe there's some recordings of these songs still knocking about. |
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31 Jul 08 - 11:42 AM (#2402306) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: HipflaskAndy Canadee-I-O - Trad. The definitive version, for me, is on the wonderful Nic Jones' Penguin Eggs album. It's no secret I'm a HUGE fan of Nic! I wouldn't want to attempt an acoustic version after his! So we did a rocked-up and expanded-by-other-tunes electric arrangement on our latest - 'All Rogues & Villains' It's of a fair and handsome girl – she's all in her tender years She fell in love with a sailor boy – it's true she loved him well For to go off to sea with him – like she did not know how She longed to see that seaport town called Canadee-I-O She bargained with a young sailor boy – it's all for a piece of gold Straightway he led her down – all into the hold Saying I'll dress you up sailor's clothes – your jacket shall be blue You'll see that seaport town called Canadee-I-O Now when the other sailor's heard the news – well they fell into a rage And with the whole ship's company – they were willing to engage Saying we'll tie her hands and feet me boys – overboard, her, we will throw She'll never see that seaport town called Canadee-I-O Now when the captain he's heard the news – well he too fell into a rage And with the whole ship's company – he was willing to engage Saying she'll stay all in sailor's clothes – her colour shall be blue She'll see that seaport town called Canadee-I-O Now when they came to Canada – scarcely above half a year She's married this bold captain – he's called her his dear She's dressed in silks and satins now – she cuts a gallant show She's the finest of the ladies down in Canadee-I-O Come all you fair and tender girls – where so ever you may be I'll have you follow your own true love – when he goes out on the sea For if the sailors prove false to you – well the captain he may prove true You'll see the honour she has gained from the wearing of the blue |
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31 Jul 08 - 11:48 AM (#2402314) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: HipflaskAndy I mebbe should say, cause I allus forget I'm on a pen-name on here, that the last post there (from me, HipflaskAndy) refers to the Duncan McFarlane Band! Cheers - Duncan |
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31 Jul 08 - 01:22 PM (#2402419) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,TIA from Avenue Q- Ohhhh... I wish you could meet my girlfriend, my girlfriend who lives in Canada. She couldn't be sweeter I wish you could meet her, My girlfriend who lives in Canada! Her name is Alberta She lives in Vancouver She cooks like my mother And &*%s like a Hoover. I e-mail her every single day Just to make sure that everything's okay. It's a pity she lives so far away, in Canada! Last week she was here, but she had the flu. Too bad 'Cause I wanted to introduce her to you It's so sad There wasn't a thing that she could do But stay in bed with her legs up over her head! Oh! I wish you could meet my girlfriend, But you can't because she is in Canada. I love her, I miss her, I can't wait to kiss her, So soon I'll be off to Alberta! I mean Vancouver! Shit! Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancou- She's my girlfriend! My wonderful girlfriend! Yes I have a girlfriend, who lives in Canada!! And I can't wait to eat her %#$@ again! |
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03 Aug 08 - 02:42 PM (#2404384) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Bon_NS Hello all- what an interesting thread! As I sit here in rainy Halifax, I can think of a hundred songs with Canadian place names , and a good few writtien by friends of mine which probably few have heard ,except in sessions around Nova Scotia. If only I could type better , I could submit a whole raft of them :o) Hipflask Andy, you sound familiar.... I'm very much looking forward to Whitby in a few weeks, with my finace , Iain, of keepers Fold I shall check back often, with geography, pronunciation and lyrics :o) |
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04 Aug 08 - 07:33 AM (#2404756) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,henryp So over the mountains and over the plains Into the muskeg and into the rain Up the St. Lawrence all the way to Gaspe Swingin our hammers and drawin our pay Drivin em in and tyin em down Away to the bunkhouse and into the town A dollar a day and a place for my head A drink to the livin and a toast to the dead Canadian Railroad Trilogy; Gordon Lightfoot Drive me to the airport cause my baby's waiting Way up north in Calgary the ice is breaking In Calgary she's waiting All alone Calgary; Ian & Sylvia Tyson |
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04 Aug 08 - 11:55 AM (#2404921) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Charley Noble There are several dozen Cicely Fox Smith poems, some of which have been recently adapted for singing, that mention towns and landmarks in British Colombia, where she was in residence from 1904 to 1913. Here's one which is a fond remembrance of Victoria Harbour: Pacific Coast Half across the world to westward there's a harbour that I know, Where the ships that load with lumber and the China liners go, — Where the wind blows cold at sunset off the snow-crowned peaks that gleam Out across the Straits at twilight like the landfall of a dream. There's a sound of foreign voices — there are wafts of strange perfume — And a two-stringed fiddle playing somewhere in an upstairs room; There's a rosy tide lap-lapping on an old worm-eaten quay, And a scarlet sunset flaming down behind the China Sea. And I daresay if I went there I should find it all the same, Still the same old sunset glory setting all the skies aflame, Still the smell of burning forests on the quiet evening air, — Little things my heart remembers nowhere else on earth but there. Still the harbour gulls a-calling, calling all the night and day, And the wind across the water singing just the same old way As it used to in the rigging of a ship I used to know Half across the world from England, many and many a year ago. She is gone beyond my finding — gone forever, ship and man, Far beyond that scarlet sunset flaming down behind Japan; But I'll maybe find the dream there that I lost so long ago — Half across the world to westward in a harbour that I know — Half across the world from England many and many a year ago. Notes: From Sea Songs and Ballads 1917-22, edited by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, US, © 1924, pp. 96-97; previously published in Ships and Folks, © 1920, pp. 65-66. May be sung to the traditional forebitter "Rolling Home." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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04 Aug 08 - 12:40 PM (#2404959) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Big Mick I was looking back through this thread and couldn't believe that we all overlooked Rick Fielding's "Angus Fraser" which is completely about Canada, as seen through the life of an old fella, a Scottish immigrant, looking back. ANGUS FRASER ©Rick Fielding, BMI E A B7 My name is Angus Fraser, ninety summers I have seen. A E B7 Born below decks on an immigrant ship sailing out of Aberdeen. E A B7 To leave her land and kinfolk near to broke my mother's heart. A E B7 For a newborn babe on a twelve-foot wave, hard times from the start. Halifax was my first home, and I grew up hard and strong. I watched my old man waste away from working so damned long. At sixteen years, in a uniform, I crossed the seas again. To defend this land, I shot a man. Those were hard times then. F#m B7 E B7 E Those were hard times then; not a dollar left to spend. C#M G# A B7 We paid the cost for what we lost and faced it once again. F#m B7 E B7 E Hard times then; it seemed they'd never end, A E B7 E But we fought like hell and we lived to tell of the hard times once again. I worked again until the crash sent prices tumbling down. Hung on by my fingertips till the banker's men came 'round. To throw a farmer's family out, that's the worst of any crimes. It was called the Great Depression, but I called it more hard times. Once again aboard a train, this time I rode alone. In an empty boxcar, prarie winds can chill you to the bone. I'd heard of work in the logging camps on B.C.'s northern coast. By God, I missed my family. That's when hard times hurt the most. And those were hard times then... For seven years I swung an axe, cut down a million trees. She sent love and I sent my pay, but in time we ceased to be. The next war came and, once again, I answered when they called, But the days and nights in a prison camp were the hardest times of all. I worked the mills in Cornwall, fished in Newfoundland. I love this country east to west, for I built it with my hands. Twice more I got married, now my children number eight. Oh, the hard times coming 'round again, guess that's to be their fate. Those were hard times then... Those were hard times then... |
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04 Aug 08 - 08:21 PM (#2405317) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Charley Noble And then there are all those Canadian historical songs by Tanglefoot and James Keelaghan. Maybe I missed them in sifting through the above posts. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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05 Aug 08 - 01:47 PM (#2405856) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST "Sudbury Saturday Night" "Tilsonburg" Both by Stompin' Tom Connors |
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05 Aug 08 - 06:54 PM (#2406096) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Sandy Mc Lean Almost all of Stompin'Tom's songs were about or set in named Canadian places. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stompin'_Tom_Connors |
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26 Oct 08 - 05:57 PM (#2476788) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi I'm not sure if this play party song has been posted to this thread yet. I decided to post it not only because a Canadian place name is mentioned in its lyrics, but also because of its' source-a 1905 paper about life in early Illinois {hat tip to Peace for posting this link in the Mudcat thread about the game song "Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow"}. We are marching down towards Old Quebec Where the drums are loudly beating, The Americans have gained the day And the British are retreating. The wars are o'er and we'll turn back No more forever to be parted; We'll open the ring and choose a couple in Because they are true-hearted. -snip- Here's a pertinent excerpt from that historical paper: "A large share of the amusements and entertainments indulged in and practiced by the early population of Central Illinois consisted in social singing of play or forfeit songs, illustrating the evening entertainment of home and fire-side, for girls and boys. Singing of well-known hymns to familiar tunes used at church and religious meetings enlisted the aged also of both sexes. So it often happened after the light aand frolic plays of the youth had ended in sale and redemption of all play-forfeits and pawns in affection and hilarity, some elder witness of the youthful jollity would raise a tuneful voice of psalmody, reciting in solemn melody the words of some "Hymn, devout or holy psalm," in which all, young and old, would join to make a benediction to close the evening's entertainment. I wish to enlarge somewhat on this branch of old fashioned earlytime youthful entertainment. Each play or individual entertainment was introduced by a song or words in jingling rhyme sung in chorus by all taking part in the play. These words explained and carried forward as it were, the movement and progress of the play to its own close, when another song for like purpose would start and carry forward another play." http://riverweb.cet.uiuc.edu/Archives/transactions/1905/IL-social_20life.html Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society--1905-Social Life and Scenes in the Early Settlement of Central Illinois (By James Haines.) |
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26 Oct 08 - 06:52 PM (#2476827) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Strange, but I missed this thread. Here is a song I wrote during the Viet Nam war. Whoops, I can't find the words. Will search--and be back... Art |
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26 Oct 08 - 07:59 PM (#2476871) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Come back soon Art. I'm very curious. |
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26 Oct 08 - 08:02 PM (#2476875) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Me too. |
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26 Oct 08 - 08:38 PM (#2476899) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Bob the Postman While we're waiting on Art, here's a link to Gordon Carter's Vietnam era song mentioning a Canadian place name, The Letter. Gordon is a third generation Comox Valley boy, a darn fine picker and a hell of a good song writer. |
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26 Oct 08 - 08:49 PM (#2476909) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Bob, I agree with what you said about that song, but you forgot to say that the song was sad. I should have expected that since you said that it was a Vietnam era song. In addition to the lyrics, there's also a link to a sound clip of the song. Unfortunately, the sound clip ends before the verse that mentions the Canadian place name. "By the time they sent my letter I was already gone I was living like a hobo in south Saskatchewan They called me a traitor to the land of my birth" It don't matter where you lay your head we're all brothers on this earth Gordon Carter-"The Letter" |
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26 Oct 08 - 10:27 PM (#2476946) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Judy Cook How 'bout The Badger Drive It mentions a number of lakes around the town of Badger NF: Victoria, Paymeoch, Tom Joe, Marianne, and the town of Badger itself. I had to learn this after hearing Dick Swain sing it. And from further back in my past, Scarborough Settler's Lament --Judy |
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26 Oct 08 - 10:53 PM (#2476956) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself Then there's the immortal opening lines of the Stompin' Tom song 'The LPR': She's on a bar-hoppin' spree, Back in Sault Ste-Marie ... |
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27 Oct 08 - 12:52 AM (#2477001) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme The song I wrote back in the late 1960s or early 1970s is called CANADIAN TRAVELER. I still can't find it here at home, but amazingly I just found it in our Mudcat DT!!! Go figure. If you want, do your own search in the DT and there it will be. Carol and I were camping in the Canadian Rockies, and you can see what was on my mind. That damn WAR. As I'm fond of saying, "History repeats. It just costs twice as much every time around! Art (P.S.---I'm exhausted tonight. Tomorrow I'll post the words.) |
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27 Oct 08 - 02:14 AM (#2477021) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself Correction: The Stompin' Tom song I mentioned has the title "Algoma Central Sixty-Nine". I think. If anyone is interested, here's the man himself doing "Bud the Spud" at the Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto) circa 1973. |
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27 Oct 08 - 07:56 AM (#2477117) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: kendall Genie, Isle au Haut is in Maine. It's an island in east Penobscot bay. Gordon Bok has written songs about that peaceful place. Prince Edward Island is heaven to me was written by Harold Breau, Lenny Breau's father. He recorded it on RCA back in the 50's. When it's apple blossom time in Annapolis Valley, by Alberta Slim. Fundy, by Gordon Bok Bay Rupert. The last Battle. (About the massacre of the Mitis in Saskatchewan) |
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27 Oct 08 - 01:24 PM (#2477334) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Kendall, Live an' learn. I never knew that Lenny Bruce's father wrote songs! Art |
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27 Oct 08 - 02:14 PM (#2477374) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Henryp Don't Be Denied by Neil Young When I was a young boy, My mama said to me Your daddy's leavin' home today, I think he's gone to stay. We packed up all our bags And drove out to Winnipeg. When we got to Winnipeg I checked in to school. I wore white bucks on my feet, When I learned the golden rule. The punches came fast and hard Lying on my back in the school yard. On Yonge Street by Gordon Lightfoot See the people walkin' up and down See the people movin' all around On the streets of my hometown on Yonge Street Longest street in the world they say Summertime soon slips away I hope I'll see you one fine day on Yonge Street Long Long Time to Get Old by Ian Tyson 1969 The eagle's flyin' tomorrow Mosquito bitin' me today I ride the bus to Toronto Highway Two all the way I take a walk along Yonge Street Good times are bought and sold Remember this, children If the good Lord's willin' There's a long, long time to get old Spring Time in Alberta by Ian Tyson Just like spring time in Alberta Warm sunny days endless skies of blue Then without a warning Another winter storm comes raging through And the mercury's fallin' I'm left all alone Just like spring time in Alberta Chills me to the bone Alberta Bound by Paul Brandt Sign said 40 miles to Canada My truck tore across Montana Ian Tyson sang a lonesome lullaby And so I cranked up the radio Cause there's just a little more to go For I'd cross the border at that Sweet Grass sign I'm Alberta Bound |
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27 Oct 08 - 02:32 PM (#2477388) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself "Live an' learn. I never knew that Lenny Bruce's father wrote songs!" Um, that would be Lenny BREAU. The parents had a C&W act; young Lenny reputedly got cuffed once by the ol' man for throwing a jazz solo into the middle of a hurtin' song. I always (mis?)understood that there was some dispute over the authorship of Prince Edward Island is Heaven to Me ... (One of those somebody-sold-it-to-somebody-for-the-price-of-a-drink stories). |
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27 Oct 08 - 02:52 PM (#2477399) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Here is the song I wrote during the Viet Nam war era. Canadian Traveler by Art Thieme tune: Tramps And Hawkers (I based this song on the theme of BUFFALO SKINNERS -- with some few words similar to aspects of PETER EMBERLY.) My name is not important; Alberta is my home, I left the plains of Ameri-cay In Canada for to roam, I left the plains of Ameri-cay To escape that heinous war, And little did I ever think What the fates did have in store. It was in the town of Calgary In the spring of '63, A man by the name of St.Laurent Came stepping' up to me, Saying, "How do you do, young fellow, And how would you like to go, And survey the course of the Kicking Horse Near the valley called Yoho." It's me bein' out of employment, To this fellow I did say, "This going out on your survey crew, Depends upon the pay." "It's I will pay good wages, Transportation to and fro, If you will accompany me To the valley called Yoho." Well, it's now we've crossed those rapids And our troubles have begun. I lost half of all my gear, And also broke my thumb, Bob fell and died among the rocks, Jim died of cold and snow, Anton fell into the foaming wash Of the river called Yoho. Our time it being near over, St.Laurent he did say, The boys had been extravagant, Were in debt to him that day. Yes, we tied him tight, and left his knife A distance from his hands, And we headed into the wilderness, Of that big Peace River land. There's danger on the ocean, Where the waves roll mountains high, And there's danger on the battlefield, Where the angry bullets fly, And there is danger in the big north woods, Here I am forced to roam, 'Til folks of worth find peace on Earth My footsteps crunch the snow. |
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27 Oct 08 - 03:01 PM (#2477405) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Meself, I knew that. Just a little joke. There is the curse of thinking in puns rearing it's head yet again. Azizi, another fine thread---; and nary a condom to be seen... Art |
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27 Oct 08 - 03:17 PM (#2477417) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme The song Canadian Traveler as posted is how I sang it in later years---the 1980s and '90s. Art |
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27 Oct 08 - 03:22 PM (#2477420) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself "Just a little joke." Sorry! I thought it was just a little absent-mindedness ... |
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27 Oct 08 - 03:28 PM (#2477427) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Thanks, Art for posting your "Canadian Traveler" song. So is there really a Yoho valley and Yoho river in Canada? No disrespect intended, but it seems to me that people living there could have some fun with that name. ** And Art, thanks for your compliment about my idea for this thread. I'm not sure what you meant by your comment about condoms. Maybe that is on a need to know basis, and since I don't need any condoms ...well... never mind. ;o) |
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27 Oct 08 - 04:58 PM (#2477519) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Azizi, Sorry for misleading with the condom reference. I started a thread a very l-o-n-g time ago about those---to point up and to protest what dumb non-folk threads were taking over Mudcat-- as I saw it then. I was just alluding to that thread--sometimes called 'the infamous condom thread' in posts. No aspersions to your good thread were intended!!!! Google 'Yoho National Park' in Canada. Also, the 'Kicking Horse River' - one of the wildest streams I've ever seen---cascading through the beauty and the wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. There are photos from here at my photo site-- http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html Art Thieme |
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27 Oct 08 - 05:20 PM (#2477552) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi rudegnu.com?! Oh, no! Now you're talking about Mudcatter gnu. Pardon my wierd sense of humor {I guess that should be "humour" as I believe that's the way Canadian's spell it}. Btw, here's your hyperlink: http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html ** Your photos are fantastic. But which photos are of the Yoho National Park? |
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27 Oct 08 - 09:21 PM (#2477719) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: kendall Art, that sounds a lot like " Range of the Buffalo". Do you know Harry Tuft? |
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28 Oct 08 - 12:05 AM (#2477818) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Kendall, I know Harry, but not well. I met him at Hartford, CT ---at a Folk Legacy Festival in the '70s or '80s. The song you're thinking of is the old trad 'Buffalo Skinners.' Woody sang it and taught it to Pete and Jack Elliott---and I learned it in the late 1950s from Pete's AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL BALLADS (or something like that) on Folkways Records. I guess that 'Buf Skinners' and 'Range Of The Buffalo' are one and the same. Mrs. Ravoon -- Griesley Bride: Sure I know Harry! I listened to your CD twice more today and it refuses to get tiring. Again, what a fine record! Art |
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02 Dec 08 - 08:33 PM (#2506428) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,jonovision My goodness gracious...so many oversights.... Marie-Jo Therriault...Moncton Zachary Richard...Cap Enragé Timo...Ya ben trop dmonde (acadie) Bran van 3000...supermodel (thunder bay) Buddy Wasisname...Dumping on Toronto Buddy Wasisname...song for newfoundland Cayouche...auberge du quai de l'horloge (montreal) Cayouche...pas d'icitte pas d'ailleurs...(paquetteville) Charbonniers de l'enfer.filles de repentigny City and colour...Coming Home (Halifax, saskatoon) Classified...the maritimes (halifax) Damien...Check One Two (Montreal) Eric Lapointe...Bobby Pine (Ste-Catherine) Ian Tyson...Horsetheif moon(alberta) Jean Leloup...I lost my Baby (Hawksberry, ottawa, ste-foy...) Joel Plaskett...love this town (Rivière-Du-Loup, Kelowna) Joel Plaskett...Nowhere with you (Dartmouth) Sam Roberts...This wreck of a life (Ste-Catherine et St-Laurent) Fred Eaglesmith...Cumberland County Stompin' Tom Connors...Just about every song he's ever done includes mentions of St-John, PEI, Clementine, Montreal, Entree Isle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Yukon... Tom Cochrane...Life's a highway (Vancouver) The Tragically Hip...About half the songs they every done...including places such as ...Bobcaygeon, Toronto, Twillingate, Brandon... All I did was pruse through the mp3s on my computer...there are so mny more... |
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03 Dec 08 - 07:02 AM (#2506712) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Thanks for that list, Guest jonovision! |
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03 Dec 08 - 04:32 PM (#2507133) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Two locations crying out for inclusion are Moose Jaw, birthplace of a good friend of mine, and Great Slave Lake (append Yellowknife to that list). I have not seen either mentioned thus far. Delicacy (and a wish not to offend my Canadian friends) dictates I not mention the specific name of an old Oscar Brand favorite. Suffice it to say that it celebrated the wiles of one celebrated "soiled dove" from a city in Manitoba. C'mon; you know... |
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03 Dec 08 - 05:41 PM (#2507178) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Bert Harbour Le Cou |
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03 Dec 08 - 06:57 PM (#2507224) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Art Thieme Little Abitibi River Many of Wade Hemsworth's songs. |
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08 Jun 09 - 02:28 PM (#2651497) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi This song was just posted in a recently revived thread. I'm going to take the liberty to copy the entire post and an excerpt from the preceding post: Subject: RE: Donkey Riding - What's Hong-ki-kong? From: GUEST,Lighter - PM Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:45 PM Nordhoff: Were you ever in Quebec, Chorus:--Bonnie laddie, highland laddie, Stowing timber on the deck, Chorus:--My bonnie highland laddie oh. [Similarly:] Were you ever in Dundee.... There some pretty ships you'll see.... Were you ever in Merrimashee.... Where you make fast to a tree.... Were you ever in Mobile Bay.... Screwing cotton by the day.... thread.cfm?threadid=41062&messages=56 -snip- Subject: RE: Donkey Riding - What's Hong-ki-kong? From: Q - PM Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:16 PM In "Folk Songs of Canada," Fowke and Johnston mention the version of "Hieland Laddie" (Donkey Riding) in Charles Nordhoff, "Nine Years a Sailor," 1857, in which Quebec, Dundee, Merrimashee and Mobile are mentioned. He obtained it from cotton screwers in Mobile. Mentioned in passing in Hugill. ... thread.cfm?threadid=41062&messages=56 ** Of course, I recognize the Canadian place name Quebec. And I'm assuming that Mobile is Moblile, Alabama (but since the song referred to "Mobile Bay" maybe I'm wrong about that). But where are Dundee and Merrimashee located? |
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08 Jun 09 - 02:42 PM (#2651516) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST Let's not forget "Dance Hall Girls" by Fraser & Debolt. Each verse ends with the line "Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?" At the end of the song, though, they sing, "Is this the way it always is here in Montreal?" |
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08 Jun 09 - 03:12 PM (#2651543) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Azizi - it's almost certainly Miramachi, NB. |
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08 Jun 09 - 03:20 PM (#2651547) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Thanks, Terry. At one time I would have asked what "NB" means. But now I can pat myself on the back cause I figure it's "New Brunswick, Canada" whose capital is "Fredericton". (Okay, I admit that I cheated on the capital by looking it up at this website: http://www.canada.gc.ca/othergov-autregouv/prov-eng.html ** Now that we (okay again-now that I know) that "Merrimashee" is "Miramachi, NB", where is "Dundee"? And was I right that "Mobile" (Mobile Bay) is "Mobile, Alabama, USA"? |
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08 Jun 09 - 03:24 PM (#2651551) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Terry McDonald Mobile is clearly the one in Alabama. Dundee is presumably the city (and port) of that name in Scotland. |
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08 Jun 09 - 03:28 PM (#2651553) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Crowhugger "Country Music" by Marie-Lynn Hammond: ...Well you can play that country music Yes you can hear those country songs And all the people lost in the cities They can't help but play along: Sing of prairie summers, Ottawa River And Sunday mornings in a small Quebec town... |
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08 Jun 09 - 04:00 PM (#2651577) Subject: Something to Sing About From: Crowhugger This one's full of place references and IMHO it should be our national anthem, AFTER someone fixes the first 2 lines. For the information of the geographically challenged, the Grand Banks are a large, relatively shallow area of the ocean sitting generally to the south of Newfoundland where cod and other fish used to be absurdly plentiful. If it is indeed sandy, one would need gills to walk on it! I found the full words in another thread, but since I'm not much of a blue-clicky-maker... 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. |
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08 Jun 09 - 04:46 PM (#2651601) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Sandy Mc Lean Crowhugger, when that mistake was pointed out to Oscar he changed it to: "I have walked many a mile On the shores of Prince Edward Isle" The sands of Cavendish rise above sea level, :-} |
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08 Jun 09 - 04:57 PM (#2651610) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Gibb Sahib Azizi, Those places all relate to working ports, or places where migrant type labor would be familiar with. Mobile Bay (Alabama and Gulf of Mexico ports generally -- Galveston TX, NOLA) was, in some people's opinion "ground zero" for chantey formation. Cotton loading there. Miramichi and Quebec were timber loading areas. Seasonal labor might shift between there and Mobile. Dundee is, well, Scotland -- cause that's where the original Hielan' Laddie song came from!! :) Plenty other places, non-Canadian figure in the song. In my version I ask, "Was you ever in L.A.?" |
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09 Jun 09 - 12:46 PM (#2652347) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Crowhugger Ahh, I see, Sandy McLean thanks for that...Funny thing is that the version we sang as kids in the later 60's (perhaps before that change) had both the Grand Banks and PEI lines in there somehow, each opening its own verse. Not from someone's memory but from some print version, but maybe not an official print version...that's some more folk process at work I guess. :-) ~CH~ |
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09 Jun 09 - 12:52 PM (#2652350) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Gibb, did you mean this sentence from your 08 Jun 09 - 04:57 PM post to read this way: Those places all relate to working ports, or places where migrant type labor would be familiar with. Mobile Bay (Alabama) and Gulf of Mexico ports generally, Galveston TX, NOLA were in some people's opinion "ground zero" for chantey formation. ** Also, does "Cotton loading there" refer to Mobile Bay or all of those ports you mentioned. I'm not trying to be nit picky (excuse that expression). I'm just trying to gather more trivia information in a true Virgo-ian manner (Virgo-my Ascendant and Mars sign in astrology) |
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01 Jul 09 - 12:12 AM (#2668591) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Azizi Happy Canada Day! Visit this link for Canada Songs for children: http://www.dltk-kids.com/canada/songs/index.html |
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01 Jul 09 - 12:22 AM (#2668595) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself That's mighty kind and considerate of you, Mizz Azizi - and happy Canada Day right back atcha! |
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12 Apr 10 - 02:36 AM (#2884618) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Rowan Looks like my suggestions about the similarities between "Riding on a donkey" and "Bonnie Hieland Laddie" have already been preempted, although I've always heard the former played in a major scale and the latter I learned and sang in a minor scale. Both appear to refer to aspects of the Transatlantic timber trade. How about the ultimate place name song written by Nova Scotian, Hank Snow? I've been everywhere Well, Hank's song (like the ones from the US and England and other places) is subsequent to, and a parody of the one sung by Lucky Starr that deals with Australian place names. Currently, Hank's effort appears in the DT while Lucky Starr's doesn't. I seem to recall a lovely strathspey that tunefully recalls the eddies and pools of the St Lawrence River but I'm not sure whether it has words written to it. Cheers, Rowan |
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12 Aug 11 - 09:51 PM (#3206999) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Pascal Please help! A friend asked me to make a french adaptation of "Fortune come home year" by Eric Kendell; This song is on a mini-tape recorded in Grand-Bank for the Fortune come home year committee (Burin peninsula - 1996)). But before translating the lyrics, I must have them. Unfortunately I do not understand all the english words. Do somebody can help me about those lyrics. The song is probably not well-known but I can send a digital copy by email to anyone who agree to help me. Thanks. Pascal from St-Pierre & Miquelon |
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13 Aug 11 - 06:57 AM (#3207138) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer This first song is by a friend of mine Victor Courte. Not many place names mentioned but more of land reference. Great job Victor. http://youtu.be/7VuqxaQxux0 This second song has lots of place names. The Mike Plume Band with the song "8:30 Newfoundland" or "This is our Home". Great song. http://youtu.be/SpMdwDL6xrY ad. |
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13 Aug 11 - 07:10 AM (#3207141) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bobad David Francey Banks of the Seaway mentions Summerstown which is just east of Cornwall, Ontario, on the St.Lawrence River, which is also mentioned in the song. |
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13 Aug 11 - 07:37 AM (#3207152) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: bobad Guest, Pascal Your best bet would be to start a new thread with your request and post the English lyrics. Mention in the thread title that you are wanting a French translation of a song. |
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10 Sep 11 - 02:17 AM (#3220981) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Daeth For something a little more recent, there is a song by the artist Classified called The Maritimes that mostmentions specfics about stuff in Nova Scotia. |
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10 Sep 11 - 09:25 PM (#3221369) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer GUEST,Daeth Do you have any more information that you could add? ad. |
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10 Sep 11 - 09:40 PM (#3221371) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mrrzy In Three Fishermen, they all sailed out for Halifax, they all sailed out for Halifax, hali hali fax fax fax, hali hali fax fax fax, they all sailed out for Halifax. In the intro to something the Clancy Brothers say something like Some escaped even further west, to the land that became known as Nova Scotia, New Scotland... And I'm sure I have more sea chanteys about sailing up North, I'll have to see... or, rather, listen. |
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10 Sep 11 - 09:47 PM (#3221372) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer I am very interested in this Mrrzy. Hope you have the time to come up with more. Thanks. ad. |
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11 Sep 11 - 06:44 AM (#3221486) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: David C. Carter How about "Acadian Driftwood":The Band. Can't recall all the lyrics at the moment,guess they're on Youtube some place though. Maybe someone has them. David |
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11 Sep 11 - 10:09 AM (#3221532) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,999 F C9 The war was over and the spirit was broken Dm9 Ebmaj9 Gm7 The hills were smokin' as the men withdrew F We stood on the cliffs C/G A9 Oh, and watched the ships Bb Gm7 Slowly sinking to their rendezvous F C9 They signed a treaty and our homes were taken Dm9 Ebmaj9 Loved ones forsaken Gm7 They didn't give a damn F Try'n' to raise a family C/G A9 End up the enemy Bb Gm7 Over what went down on the plains of Abraham (*) F Bb Acadian driftwood Gm7 C7 Gypsy tail wind Bb/D F/C Bb Gm7 They call my home the land of snow F Bb Gm7 C7 Canadian cold front movin' in Bb/D F/C What a way to ride Bb Dm7/A Gm7 C7 F Oh, what a way to go Then some returned to the motherland The high command had them cast away And some stayed on to finish what they started They never parted They're just built that way We had kin livin' south of the border They're a little older and they've been around They wrote a letter life is a whole lot better So pull up your stakes, children and come on down Fifteen under zero when the day became a threat My clothes were wet and I was drenched to the bone Been out ice fishing, too much repetition Make a man wanna leave the only home he's known Sailing out of the gulf headin' for Saint Pierre Nothin' to declare All we had was gone Broke down along the coast But what hurt the most When the people there said "You better keep movin' on" Everlasting summer filled with ill-content This government had us walkin' in chains This isn't my turf This ain't my season Can't think of one good reason to remain I've worked in the sugar fields up from New Orleans It was ever green up until the floods You could call it an omen Points ya where you're goin' Set my compass north I got winter in my blood Acadian driftwood Gypsy tail wind They call my home the land of snow Canadian cold front movin' in What a way to ride Ah, what a way to go F C7sus4 C7 Bb/D Gm7 Sais tu, A-ca-di-e j'ai le mal du pays [You know, Acadia, I long for the country (I am homesick)] F C7sus4 C7 Bb/D Gm7 Ta neige, Acadie, fait des larmes au soleil [Your snow, Acadia, makes tears in the sun (or for the sun)] F C7sus4 C7 Bb/D Gm7 J'arrive Acadie, teedle um, teedle um, teedle ooh [I am arriving Acadia (or I am coming Acadia)] |
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11 Sep 11 - 10:40 AM (#3221540) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,999 Dennis Brown's 'Crossties on a Railroad'. As Bill Garrett pointed out during his set at Namasthe a few months back--the opening line to the song is "I left my home in the Selkirks [Canadian mountain range] where the Douglas-fir stands"--the D-f doesn't grow that far inland from the coast of BC. |
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12 Sep 11 - 05:17 AM (#3221809) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: David C. Carter Many thanks for the "Acadian Driftwood" lyrics 999. And the added chordse,of cours! Cheers David |
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12 Sep 11 - 05:53 AM (#3221822) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,999 Hi, David. You are most welcome. |
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12 Sep 11 - 06:57 AM (#3221843) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Beer Thanks asa well Bruce. Most appreciated. Would have written sooner but as you know I was a bit busy these past three days. ad. |
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12 Sep 11 - 07:17 AM (#3221850) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,999 David, There's about a half dozen sites that have words and chords. Until you mentioned the song, I'd never heard of it before. But then, I ain't too long outta the trees. Beer, I heard all about your busy-ness the last three days. I hope it cleared some space for you. |
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12 Sep 11 - 11:19 AM (#3221963) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: David C. Carter Bruce, I imagined that there would be a few sites out there,but I was pressed for time yesterday when I posted. Sorry about that! Thanks again. David |
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12 Sep 11 - 01:43 PM (#3222049) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST It was a pleasure because thanks to that I got to encounter a good song. (I didn't mean to imply that finding the song was a chore, David. The opposite in fact.) The Band--is this The Band as in Music From Big Pink? |
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12 Sep 11 - 08:15 PM (#3222238) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Sandy Mc Lean Hank Snow didn't write I've Been Everywhere but as pointed out adapted an Aussie song. He did however write this and it is one that I sing often. My Nova Scotia Home |
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13 Sep 11 - 05:53 AM (#3222381) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: David C. Carter Guest,Music From Big Pink,that's right. I was only sorry that I myself was in a hurry to get to someplace,and didn't have time to look it up. I didn't think that you would find it a chore,LOL.I am happy to hear that you found a song you liked.It isn't as well known as some of their other great(IMO)songs,alas! So.I won't say "Have a nice day",I'll let you chose what sort of day you want to have! Best wishes Take care David(in another bloody rush) |
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30 Sep 21 - 04:11 PM (#4121461) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Robert Dawson Stringband did a version of "John Henry" (ca 1975) inspired by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' protest against sorting machines and the postal codes that made them possible. It had one chorus consisting entirely of Canadian place names recited rhythmically, and another one with a similar string of postal codes. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to memorize. |
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30 Sep 21 - 06:10 PM (#4121469) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Cool Beans A song about Toronto's Avenue Road. Here's a link: https://martykohn.bandcamp.com/track/avenue-road |
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30 Sep 21 - 07:38 PM (#4121479) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Sol "Picture To Hollywood" by Ron Hynes. He mentions 'blue New Brunswick sky' "The Balena" - 'from Dundee to St Johns' "Let's Get Away From It All" by Sinatra 'Let' take a trip to Niagara' "Ontario" -Eddi Reader |
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30 Sep 21 - 11:01 PM (#4121497) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GerryM This thread needs an index. |
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01 Oct 21 - 10:37 AM (#4121559) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,Cory Mithery These are some songs with Canadian place names written by Kieran Wade, formerly a member of the Toronto-based band, TIP Splinter The Fields of Saskatchewan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3o729O0YnI The Shores of Newfoundland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpBdX4_ols Midnight Sun – Yellowknife, Northwest Territories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHxT7SGvZQ One Way Ticket – Brantford, Ontario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0s7O92GoU |
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01 Oct 21 - 10:47 AM (#4121563) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: meself Well ... with all due respect to the OP - and I do wish she would make a re-appearance on Mucat! - the whole premise is a little naive, as I'm sure she'd willingly concede. The assumption would seem to be that there is a limited number of 'Songs that Mention Canadian Places'. I suppose there's no harm in it, but I'm not sure what the point is of going on forever bringing up every obscure song that mentions a Canadian place name. I guess as a Canadian I find it a little embarrassing, tbh .... |
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01 Oct 21 - 12:43 PM (#4121574) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Sol "Flowers Of Saskatchewan" David Francey (... the ghost of the Calgary Tanks) Flowers of Saskatchewan |
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02 Oct 21 - 11:07 AM (#4121658) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Rex Canol Road |
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02 Oct 21 - 06:38 PM (#4121692) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,henryp Ian Tyson has a few. LONG LONG TIME TO GET OLD by Ian Tyson 1969 The eagle's flyin' tomorrow, Mosquito bitin' me today I ride the bus to Toronto, Highway Two, all the way I take a walk along Yonge Street, Good times are bought and sold Remember this, children, If the good Lord's willin' There's a long, long time to get old |
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02 Oct 21 - 08:28 PM (#4121703) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: GUEST,henryp From GREAT SPECKLED BIRD; "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 Calgary she's waiting all alone, say 'bout that lonely 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 |
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05 Oct 21 - 08:38 AM (#4121902) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: Mrrzy La danse à St Dilon La Manitoukai |
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05 Oct 21 - 02:35 PM (#4121939) Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places From: John MacKenzie Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner :) ? |