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magazine / jf06
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January/February 2006 issue |
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Lyrical landscapes (page 3)
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.
“Harmonie Du Soir à Châteauguay”
Beau Dommage (lyrics by Robert Léger),
Beau Dommage, 1974
Dimanche au soir à Châteauguay / Les pieds
pendant au bout du quai / Les pieds pendant au
bout du quai / Les pieds pendant au bout du
quai / La rivière joue d’l’harmonica / Ma blonde
se baigne les pieds dans l’eau / Ma blonde se
baigne les pieds dans l’eau / Ma blonde se baigne
les pieds dans l’eau
“Runnin’ Back
to Saskatoon”
The Guess Who (Cummings/Winter),
Live at the Paramount, 1972
Moose Jaw, Broadview, Moosomin too / Runnin’
back to Saskatoon / Red Deer, Terrace and a
Medicine Hat / Sing another prairie tune
“Helpless”
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Neil Young),
Déjà vu, 1970
Blue, blue windows behind the stars / Yellow
moon on the rise / Big birds flying across the sky
/ Throwing shadows on our eyes
“Snowbird”
Anne Murray (Gene MacLellan),
This Is My Way, 1969
The breeze along the river seems to say / That
he’ll only break my heart again should I decide
to stay / So, little snowbird, take me with you
when you go / To that land of gentle breezes /
Where the peaceful waters flow
“Miles From Our
Home”
Cowboy Junkies, Miles From Our Home, 1998
No one in sight for fifty miles / Sleeping fields
sigh as I glide across their spines / If I can just
reach the crest of that hill / This whole day will
tumble, out the night will spill
“Sudbury Saturday
Night”
Stompin’ Tom Connors,
Sings Bud The Spud, 1972
The girls are out to Bingo and the boys are
gettin’ stinko / And we think no more of Inco
on a Sudbury Saturday night / The glasses they
will tinkle when our eyes begin to twinkle / And
we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury
Saturday night
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