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What do you guys think of Canada's new national anthem?

Okay, it's not the new anthem (yet). But it should be.

[quote] She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags

[quote] And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags

I don't know what that means, but it sounds great!

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by Anonymousreply 11July 17, 2022 2:47 PM

Here's the guy who wrote the song.

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by Anonymousreply 1July 2, 2022 2:29 AM

Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, both polio survivors, singing "Helpless" during The Last Waltz always, always does me in. I didn't know the reason for the song, despite loving it so much. Until I read it was about the threat of polio. Imagine a child facing the prospect of a lifetime of who knows what stages of being crippled if not outright paralysis and life in an iron lung.

Years ago I'd host an "Orphan Thanksgiving," and The Last Waltz always played in the background. The best.

by Anonymousreply 2July 2, 2022 3:26 AM

What's wrong with "[I Drew A Map of Canada] Oh! Canada."

by Anonymousreply 3July 2, 2022 3:34 AM

What the hell is that crap?

by Anonymousreply 4July 2, 2022 3:37 AM

Maybe this one. It's quite beautiful.

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by Anonymousreply 5July 2, 2022 3:46 AM

Shawn Mendes should write the new anthem. Ain't like he got shit else going on

by Anonymousreply 6July 2, 2022 3:49 AM

They should have hired Albert Brooks.

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by Anonymousreply 7July 2, 2022 4:04 AM

[r2], that sounds lovely.

by Anonymousreply 8July 2, 2022 4:10 AM

What is it with Canada and shitty music? The only bands I like from Canada are Skinny Puppy and Mother Mother

by Anonymousreply 9July 2, 2022 4:52 AM

R9 has clearly never sobbed uncontrollably to the heart-wrenching poetry and haunting melodies of Gord Downie (RIP)...

[quote] 'Why is the world so creepy?", she asked....I told her that, "it isn't", that "it's exquisite--but, like Love, it has its barbarous threats..."'

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by Anonymousreply 10July 17, 2022 2:40 PM

These violent delights have violent ends.

by Anonymousreply 11July 17, 2022 2:47 PM
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