O Canada Lyrics
Canada-I-O<br />
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Come all ye jolly lumbermen, and listen to my song<br />
But do not get discouraged, the length it is not long;<br />
Concerning of some lumbermen, who did agree to go<br />
To spend one pleasant winter up in Canada-I-O.<br />
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It happened late one season in the fall of fifty-three<br />
A preacher of the gospel one morning came to me;<br />
Says he, "My jolly fellow, how would you like to go<br />
To spend one pleasant winter up in Canada-I-O?"<br />
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To him I quickly made reply, and unto him did say,<br />
"In going out to Canada depends upon the pay.<br />
If you will pay good wages, my passage to and fro,<br />
I think I'll go along with you to Canada-I-O."<br />
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"Yes, we will pay good wages, and will pay your wages out,<br />
Provided you sign papers that you will stay the route;<br />
But if you do get homesick and swear that home you'll go<br />
We never can your passage pay from Canada-I-O."<br />
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"And if you get dissatisfied and do not wish to stay,<br />
We do not wish to bind you, no, not one single day,<br />
You just refund the money we had to pay, you know,<br />
Then you can leave that bonny place called Canada-I-O.<br />
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It was by his gift of flattery he enlisted quite a train,<br />
Some twenty-five or thirty, both well and able men;<br />
We had a pleasant journey o'er the road we had to go,<br />
Till we landed at Three Rivers, up in Canada-I-O.<br />
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But there our joys were ended, and our sorrows did begin,<br />
Fields, Phillips and Norcross they then came marching in.<br />
They sent us all directions, some where I do not know,<br />
Among those jabbering Frenchmen up in Canada-I-O.<br />
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After we had suffered there some eight or ten long weeks,<br />
We arrived at headquarters, up among the lakes;<br />
We thought we'd find a paradise, at least they told us so,<br />
God grant there may be no worse hell than Canada-I-O.<br />
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To describe what we have suffered is past the art of man;<br />
But to give a fair description I will do the best I can:<br />
Our food the dogs would snarl at, our beds were on the snow,]<br />
We suffered worse than murderers up in Canada-I-O.<br />
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Our hearts were made of iron and our souls were cased with steel,<br />
The hardships of that winter could never make us yield;<br />
Fields, Phillips and Norcross they found their match, I know<br />
Among the boys that went from Maine to Canada-I-O.<br />
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But now our lumbering is over and we are returning home,<br />
To greet our wives and sweethearts and never more to roam;<br />
To greet our friends and neighbors; we'll tell them not to go<br />
To that forsaken G---- D--- place called Canada-I-O.<br />
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Note: A lumberman's Buffalo Skinners<br />
@logging @work @Canada @bitching<br />
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