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Title: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: ducktrapper on July 01, 2017, 06:51:09 AM
Have a good one!  :cheers
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: unclrob on July 01, 2017, 11:06:05 AM
 :nanadance :nanadance :nanadance :nanadance :beer
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: JOYCEfromNS on July 01, 2017, 01:12:15 PM
Formally our 150th birthday I always think of my favourite Canadian - Gordon Lightfoot's words:

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
But time has no beginnings and hist'ry has no bounds
as to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
built the mines, mills and the factories for the good of us all


We certainly have a country the envy of the world!

:cheers
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: Riverbend on July 01, 2017, 04:52:39 PM
 :+1: Eh!
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: Mikeymac on July 01, 2017, 10:07:43 PM
Love that song - and lots of Gord's other tunes as well!

Canadian Railroad Trilogy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzauTuRG78)

Been listening to a lot of his music lately, for some reason...

:bowdown:
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: Danny on July 02, 2017, 01:10:11 PM
 :blush:
Quote from: JOYCEfromNS on July 01, 2017, 01:12:15 PM
Formally our 150th birthday I always think of my favourite Canadian - Gordon Lightfoot's words:

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
But time has no beginnings and hist'ry has no bounds
as to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
built the mines, mills and the factories for the good of us all


We certainly have a country the envy of the world!

:cheers
As soon as I began reading the words of this song, I heard Johnny Cash singing it. Probably because of his songs about native Americans.
     Anyway, HAPPY HAPPY (belated :blush:)
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: ST on July 02, 2017, 10:20:23 PM
Hi Danny

Canadian Railroad Trilogy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yatx6pf25RE)
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: ffinke on July 03, 2017, 12:50:55 AM
Happy Birthday to our friends from the north. Can we borrow your PM?
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: Danny on July 03, 2017, 02:11:33 AM
Quote from: ST on July 02, 2017, 10:20:23 PM
Hi Danny

Canadian Railroad Trilogy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yatx6pf25RE)
Thanks ST, I have a best of Gordan Lightfoot C.D.
      It was just reading the words that made me hear Cash sing/reading the words.

     I do hope I didn't offend any of our friends to the north, by speaking my mind openly.
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: ST on July 03, 2017, 03:44:01 AM
Hi Danny,
The link was intended as an act of sharing not correction. I learned something too. I didn't know that Gordon Lightfoot was commissioned to write that to celebrate the centennial, 50 years ago.

Cheers!

ST

Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: ducktrapper on July 03, 2017, 08:32:17 AM
Quote from: ffinke on July 03, 2017, 12:50:55 AM
Happy Birthday to our friends from the north. Can we borrow your PM?

Say what? I'm biting my tongue here.   :yak:
Title: Re: Happy Day CANADA!
Post by: headsup on July 03, 2017, 11:16:31 AM
Oh Tom, really?
Why what other world leader has THIS going for him?

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2017/06/28/justin-trudeaus-socks-appeal-is-starting-to-wear-thin-menon.html

Welcome home (if you ever make it back north of 49) :cheers