# The Great SDMB Canada Day Play-list! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378 "2013-07-01T17:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/1 "2013-07-01T17:56:19Z")
It’s Canada Day, up Canada Way, and I want to put together a Canada Day play-list. All suggestions welcome. And of course, what better one to start with than Stompin’ Tom: [It’s Canada Day!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGHMw_67fOk) Quite different in tone, there’s Oscar Peterson’s _Canadian Suite_. And of course, Lightfoot’s “Canadian Railway Trilogy”. Regional/provincial songs? Well, pretty much any song from Connie Kaldor’s “Wood River” CD is a celebration of Saskatchewan. For Nova Scotia, anything from Stan Rogers: “Barrett’s Privateers”, “Fogarty’s Cove”, “Watching the Apples Grow.” For Newfoundland, the Irish Descendants always do it for me, particularly, “Let me Fish off Cape St. Mary’s” Alberta? Lightfoot again: “Alberta Bound” Quebec: an oldie but a goodie: “Le canadien errant,” about a Québécois in exile after the '37. And “Mon Pays” I think has pan-Canadian appeal - we all know that our country is winter! Thoughts from anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/2 "2013-07-01T18:05:33Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And of course, what better one to start with than Stompin’ Tom: [It’s Canada Day!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGHMw_67fOk) Heh. Practically anything by Stompin’ Tom. When he died recently, his autopsy showed that he was _made_ of Canadian flags and poutine. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/3 "2013-07-01T18:10:14Z")
[Last Saskatchewan Pirate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_L9tXEwmc) by Captain Tractor. Best. Song. Ever. 😃 ETA: Screw the GST! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/4 "2013-07-01T18:12:34Z")
[Canadian Idiot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M) by “Weird Al” Yankovic. He’s not Canadian, but the song is too awesome to not list. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/5 "2013-07-01T18:19:46Z")
[Running Back to Saskatoon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFEIVkSHaJU) by the Guess Who. [Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A) by Gordon Lightfoot. [Bobcaygeon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QDjDPRF5c) by The Tragically Shit. [Toronto Sucks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMkV7VyPns) by the Arrogant Worms. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/6 "2013-07-01T18:22:45Z")
[Truck Got Stuck](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcWzLAcv4o) by Corb Lund. I think we’ve all been there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/7 "2013-07-01T18:24:08Z")
[Long Gone to Saskatchewan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhcjI5Pwi0) by Corb Lund. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/8 "2013-07-01T18:27:08Z")
[Springtime in Alberta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb1tcVxi34Y) by Ian Tyson. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/9 "2013-07-01T18:33:16Z")
[The Great Lake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WAAtjHJCe0) by Chalk Circle. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/10 "2013-07-01T18:34:32Z")
[Watchin’ The River Flow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax49ppL0TcE) by Colin James - I nominate this as the theme song of the Floods of 2013. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/11 "2013-07-01T18:41:44Z")
[English Bay](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhL5yAS2jI)by Blue Rodeo. As an aside, anyone who thinks Canadian music is boring or limited or there isn’t much of it or it’s all Justin Bieber and Celine Dion is a poorly-informed person. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/12 "2013-07-01T19:16:56Z")
For an Alberta song, how can it be anything BUT “Four Strong Winds” by the godfather of Canadian folk, Ian Tyson? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/13 "2013-07-01T22:52:26Z")
:pHow about "The Maple Leaf Forever’?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/14 "2013-07-01T23:39:20Z")
Winnipeg - nothing captures the city like Neil Young/Randy Bachman singing ‘[Prairie Town](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgjD8wdNzo)’. On a prairie theme, Murray McLaughlin’s ‘[Farmer Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJbO0quK-cU)’ and Stan Rogers’ ‘[Field behind the Plow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUM8mXJre1c)’ beautifully sum up virtually any rural setting between Alberta and Manitoba. Come to that, Stan Rogers did a great job describing a lot of transplanted workers in Alberta - [The Idiot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZiixkruCY). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/15 "2013-07-01T23:49:03Z")
[No Canada!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dssWxEh_gaQ) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/16 "2013-07-02T00:30:10Z")
[Helpless](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aoqVEYzsZk) - Neil Young [50 Mission Cap](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_o42wo-aU) - Tragically Hip [Barrett’s Privateers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Ufe0jF-AE) - Stan Rogers [Prairie Town](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ewuZS49aE) - Randy Bachman (With Neil - Awesome) OOops. Already mentioned by **Le Ministre**. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/17 "2013-07-02T00:54:41Z")
Bruce Cockburn, [Coldest Night of the Year](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc43Fd9DY). It’s about Toronto: “Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon… I took in Yonge Street at a glance…” Bill Houston’s [Ojibway Country](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4OgSk5gveM). Few songs celebrate northern Ontario; this one does. The Barra MacNeils, [Coal Town Road](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6yJD8e38IU). Nova Scotia coal mining, and beautiful harmonies. I used to perform this with a male quartet when I lived in Ontario. For a little more Canadian history, you’ll need Tanglefoot doing [Secord’s Warning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcdKd6Ax-dI) about the War of 1812 (we sang this one too); and more recently, [Vimy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFv5LpVpub0), about WWI. We never sang this one; I doubt that we could have made it through the song. We’ve got a lot of good Stan Rogers already, but I’d certainly think that [The Mary Ellen Carter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ) should be included. But we’ve no Rankin Family. I’d suggest [Gillis Mountain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGaTCG0n0I), and [Orangedale Whistle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdwnRYrhwZ4). Both describe life in Cape Breton. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/18 "2013-07-02T01:13:22Z")
[Blame Canada](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA), from _South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_ [Home for a Rest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s), Spirit of the West [Hello City](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-BKA2d_hs), by Barenaked Ladies ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/19 "2013-07-02T01:25:30Z")
The traditional “[Farewell to Nova Scotia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3MAaQLSSI)” performed here by the Irish Rovers. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378/20 "2013-07-02T01:32:59Z")
“Helmethead” by Great Big Sea should be included. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-canada-day-play-list/662378.md?page=2)