1-02 LITTLE TREES I see the great mountains That I'm far, far away Michael Mitchell Michael Mitchell Rise up from the coastline I had three brothers Canada Is For Kids The hills of Cape Breton And they are at rest Michael wrote this song for Sesame This new home of mine Their arms are folded on their chests Street. It tells about the important job Oh and we come from the countries But a poor, simple sailor just like me each of us has, to give young trees a All over the world Must be tossed and driven Vol 1, 2 & 3 Lyric Sheet chance to grow up to be big trees. To hack at the forests On the deep, blue sea To plow the land down I'd like to take a walk in the woods Fishermen, farmers VOLUME 1 Come with me, do you think you could And sailors all come 1-06 V'LA L'BON VENT We'll find a tree that we can climb To clear for the future Traditional We'll have fun all afternoon This pioneer ground This song is over 300 years old and Little trees need a chance to grow We are an island a rock in the stream was sung by the Voyageurs and It takes time and care We are a people as proud Coureurs de Bois who roamed They're a lot like us you know As there's been throughout Canada when it was a new In soft summer breeze nation. Such songs kept up their So many kinds of different trees Or in wild winter wind spirits when they had to paddle for up They look like one big family The home of our hearts, Cape Breton to 18 hours a day, and it also helped Big ones, short ones, baby ones too them to keep the oars working in I'll name this one after you Over the rooftops and over the trees rhythm, making everyone's work Within these new townships easier. It'll be a long time before he What do I see Is tall and strong like a grown up tree I see the black pit head V'la l'bon vent, v'la l'joli vent For now he's just a kid like us The coal wheels a-turning V'la l'bon vent m'amie m'appelle Playing out in the woods The smoke stacks a-belching V'la l'bon vent, v'la l'joli vent V'la l'bon vent m'amie m'attend And the blast fires burning And the sweat on the back 1-03 I'SE THE B'Y Derrier chez nous y'a t'un etang (2x) 1-01 SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT Traditional Is no joy to behold In the heat of the steel plant Trois beaux canards s'en vont baignant Oscar Brand The people of Newfoundland are fun- Or mining the coal I have walked cross the sand And the foreign-owned companies Trois beaux canards s'en vont baignant loving people who create wonderful Le fils du roi s'en va chassant Off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland songs about their everyday life. One of Force us to fight Lazed on the ridge of the Miramichi For our survival and for our rights their most famous songs tells the story Le fils du roi s'en va chassant Seen the waves tear and roar of a fisherman who goes out to catch On the stone coast of Labrador Over the highway and over the road Avec son grand fusil d'argent fish and take them home to his wife, Watched them roll back Liza. They have a unique way of Over the causeway stories are told To the great Northern sea They tell of the coming Avec son grand fusil d'argent talking in Newfoundland and Visa le noir, tua le blanc sometimes use words and phrases that And the going away From Vancouver Island The cities of America draw me away you would never hear anywhere else in Visa le noir, tua le blanc To the Alberta Highlands the world. And though companies come Cross the prairies, the lakes And companies go Oh fils du roi, tu est mechant To Ontario's tower I'se the b'y that builds the boat And the ways of the world From the sound of And I'se the b'y that sails her We may never know Oh fils du roi, tu est mechant Mount Royal's chimes I'se the b'y that catches the fish We'll follow the footsteps D'avoir tuer mon canard blanc Out to the Maritimes And takes them home to Liza Of those on their way Something to sing about And we'll fight for the right This land of ours Hip your partner Sally Thibeau To leave or to stay 1-07 CANADA IN MY POCKET Hip your partner Sally Brown Michael Mitchell I have welcomed the dawn Fogo, Twillingate, Morton's Harbour From the fields of Saskatchewan All around the circle 1-05 FAREWELL NOVA SCOTIA This song describes the significance of Followed the sun Traditional the symbols found on some of our To the Vancouver shore Sods and rinds to cover the flake Canadian coins. Watched it climb shiny new Cake and tea for supper Written just after the First World War, Up the snow peaks of Cariboo Codfish in the spring of the year this is a song about being prepared to I've got Canada in my pocket Up to the clouds Fried in maggoty butter defend our country. It is the official A little bit of history Where the wild Rockies soar song of Nova Scotia. A penny, and a nickel I don't want your maggoty fish And a quarter and a dime I have heard the wild wind sing They're no good for winter The sun was setting in the west Mean a lot to you and me Of places I have been I can buy as good as that The birds were singing on every tree It's more than pocket money Bay Bull and Red Deer Way down in Bonavista All nature seemed inclined to rest They're the symbols of our land And the Strait of Belle Isle But still there was no rest for me They're pictures of important things Names like Grandemere I took Liza to a dance For which this country stands And Silver Stone Faith but she could travel Farewell Nova Scotia Moose Jaw and Marrowbone And every step that she did take The sea-bound coast The maple leaf, the maple leaf Names of the pioneer Was up to her knees in gravel Let your mountains dark and dreary be Is a beautiful sight to see Named with a smile For when I am far away It waves 'hello'' to us below 1-04 THE ISLAND On your briny ocean tossed From the top of a maple tree I have wandered my way Kenzie MacNeill Will you ever heave a sigh And with every year that passes To the wild wood of Hudson's Bay Or a wish for me It grows like you and me Treated my toes The people of Cape Breton Island in So should we all grow straight and tall To Quebec's morning dew Nova Scotia have adopted this song as I grieve to leave my native land Like the lovely maple tree Where the sweet summer breeze their official song. It tells of their I grieve to leave my comrades all Through the leaves of the maple trees unique heritage as well as the hard life And my parents whom I held so dear The beaver, oh the beaver Tells us a story of great things to come that they endure. Due to And the bonny, bonny lassie Is a beautiful sight to see unemployment, many of their people That I do adore He's a happy, furry animal Yes there's something to sing about have had to go to the mainland or to Like a teddy bear with teeth Tune up a string about the United States to find work, but they The drums they do beat He's never ever lazy Call out in chorus or quietly hum continue to love their island home. And the wars do alarm He works all night and day Of a country that's young The Captain calls, I must obey Building houses for his family With a ballad that's still unsung Over an ocean and over a sea So farewell, farewell He's got no time to play Sharing the promise Beyond these great waters To my Nova Scotia home Of great things to come What do I see For it's early in the morning The schooner, oh the schooner For he goes burling down Alberta Bound, Alberta Bound The air is a mistress Is a beautiful sight to see Down the white water It's good to be Alberta Bound No man can embrace It's a great big wooden sailing ship That's where a log driver Alberta Bound, Alberta Bound When in passing she kisses your face That can sail across the sea Learns to step lightly It's good to be Alberta Bound It brings to other countries Burling down, down the white water Fly high where no eagle has ventured The things their people need A log driver's waltz Oh the skylight of Toronto And soar where no man's gone before And brings back things Please girls completely Is something you'll get onto There's no place for me Like chocolate bars But they say you've got to On the land or the sea And books for us to read When the drive's nearly over Live there for a while So I'll take to the air She loves to go down And if you've got the money On a wing and a prayer The caribou, the caribou And watch all the lads You can get yourself a honey Is a beautiful sight to see As they work on the river With a written guarantee Brave are the hearts He's a really big strong animal She knows that come evening To make you smile Of these knights of the air I'm sure you'll all agree They'll be in the town But it's snowing in the city For to greatly achieve He looks like Santa's reindeer And she does love to waltz And the streets are brown and gritty They must equally dare And he loves it when With her log driver And I know there's pretty girls On missions of mercy The wind blows cold All over town Or leaps into space So he lives up north Now to please both her parents But they never seem to find me Other worlds, other dreams to embrace With the polar bears She had to give way And the one I left behind me 'Cause he likes the ice and snow And dance with the doctors Is the reason that I'll be Alberta Bound And what of the future And merchants and lawyers What of the stars 1-08 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND Their manners were fine 1-12 THE BLUENOSE Our path lies before us Woody Guthrie But their feet made of clay Michael Stanbury They soon will be ours There's none with the style The heavens lie waiting Many of us think that this is an original Of her log driver Several years ago, the famous With arms to enfold Canadian song.