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.
--"This fair land" refers to Canada; this is the chorus to Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
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One thing I know about the rest of my life,
I know that I'll be living it in Canada.
The Rest of My Life
Sloan
I drew a map of Canada, O Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You"
Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
Four Strong Winds
Ian Tyson
Eat their weight in Kraft macaroni
And dream of driving a Zamboni
All over Saskatchewan
Weird Al, "Canadian Idiot" (Green Day Parody)
O Canada, our home and native land
True patriot love in all thy sons command
Canadian anthem
I know I'm playing again immediately, but I hope you'll forgive me this one time:
Hip yer partner Sally Tibbo
Hip yer partner Sally Brown
Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton's Harbor
All around the circle
I's the B'y That Builds The Boat - folk song featuring fishing towns and fishing life in Newfoundland
It was in my nineteenth summer
Standing in a burning August heat
That I left a small town for Toronto
With nothing but a suitcase and a dream
The Best Things
Sons of Maxwell
Raisins come from grapes.
People come from apes.
I come from Canada.
Raisins by The Barenaked Ladies (my fav Canadian band!)
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's privateers
Stan Rogers
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.
--"This fair land" refers to Canada; this is the chorus to Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
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