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magazine / jf06
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January/February 2006 issue |
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Lyrical landscapes
Our readers and editors band together to list the most memorable geographic lyrics of the past half century.
To add your own favourite songs to the list, please visit CG Chart Toppers survey.
“Acadian Driftwood”
The Band (J. R. Robertson),
Northern Lights - Southern Cross, 1975
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 tailwind / They call
my home the land of snow / Canadian cold
front movin’ in / What a way to ride / Ah, what
a way to go
“Canadian Railroad Trilogy”
Gordon Lightfoot, The Way I Feel, 1967
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad
did not run / When the wild majestic mountains
stood alone against the sun / Long before the white
man and long before the wheel / When the green
dark forest was too silent to be real
“A Case of
You”
Joni Mitchell, Blue, 1971
On the back of a cartoon coaster / In the blue
TV screen light / I drew a map of Canada / Oh
Canada / With your face sketched on it twice
“English Bay”
Blue Rodeo (Keelor/Cuddy),
Five Days in July, 1993
And as the morning sun comes up / And puts an
end to this long nite / More than anything I wish
/ You were here / Lying by my side / Holding me
near / Listening to the rain / And the passin’ cars
/ And the waves / On English Bay
“Alberta Bound”
Paul Brandt, This Time Around, 2004
This piece of heaven that I’ve found / Rocky
Mountains and black fertile ground / Everything
I need beneath that big blue sky / Doesn’t matter
where I go / This place will always be my home /
Yeah I’ve been Alberta Bound for all my life /
And I’ll be Alberta Bound until I die
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