Reconciling with a piece of my childhood
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ciroccojOMG, so I'm listening to our choir's Last Night of the Proms recording and really wishing Kurt would stop getting bands to accompany us for Will Ye No Come Back Again, because they almost inevitably mess up the rhythm, and I come across some songs whose titles I no longer remember. Go look on Wikipedia's Last Night of the Proms website, because I know the songlist for the second half is pretty much the same around the world. The song I'm looking for is not there. Oh well.
Twiddling around the site for a while, I find a site on Patriotic Songs. And what a selection there is, for every country. Including Canada, of course. And not only national patriotic songs, like O Canada, God Save the Queen, The Maple Leaf Forever and Vive la Canadienne! There's even provincial songs! Farewell To Nova Scotia, Un canadien errant, and... oh my god. A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow, arguably one of the stupider songs I have ever heard. And it's for my very own home province. I kid you not, this piece of musical excrement, with its own Wiki entry, is what passes for love of home around here.
How bad is it? Well, the chorus contains the scintillating words, "A place to stand, a place to grow, Ontari-ari-ari-o!" which I deeply resent having had to sing as a child.
The only saving grace of this thing, as far as I'm concerned? Wiki says Rick Mercer's Monday Report once used the song during a report on the massive grow-ops in Ontario.
I will never think of that song without a smile again :D :D :D
Twiddling around the site for a while, I find a site on Patriotic Songs. And what a selection there is, for every country. Including Canada, of course. And not only national patriotic songs, like O Canada, God Save the Queen, The Maple Leaf Forever and Vive la Canadienne! There's even provincial songs! Farewell To Nova Scotia, Un canadien errant, and... oh my god. A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow, arguably one of the stupider songs I have ever heard. And it's for my very own home province. I kid you not, this piece of musical excrement, with its own Wiki entry, is what passes for love of home around here.
How bad is it? Well, the chorus contains the scintillating words, "A place to stand, a place to grow, Ontari-ari-ari-o!" which I deeply resent having had to sing as a child.
The only saving grace of this thing, as far as I'm concerned? Wiki says Rick Mercer's Monday Report once used the song during a report on the massive grow-ops in Ontario.
I will never think of that song without a smile again :D :D :D
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:11 am (UTC)Well I don't suppose it's exactly patriotic - but then I like Ontari ari ari OOOOOO!
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:21 am (UTC)- but then I like Ontari ari ari OOOOOO!
::snicker:: So do I... now ;)
I love that the other "patriotic" Ontario song listed is The Black Fly Song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfly_%28song%29)
And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones
In North Ontar-i-o-i-o, In North Ontar-i-o
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Date: 2008-03-04 04:24 am (UTC)Must show it to Chris. He treeplanted in Northern Ontario (and BC) for a few summers, and swears that black flies taste like raspberries.
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Date: 2008-03-04 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-04 05:49 am (UTC)And I saw the Rick Mercer grow-op parody. It was pretty damned funny - then again, anything Rick Mercer does is funny. I wish he was straight so I could marry him.